serverside programs

[Erik Poupaert]

I've recently had a problem with javaemailserver (jes) and blackdown-jdk-1.4.1.
Without setting ulimit, jes memory usage started at around 100 MB and kept growing,
consuming the entire swap file as well, until I was unable to ssh into the server any
longer. No other option than having the co-location centre reboot the machine. When
setting ulimit, it would run until hitting the ulimit ceiling and then die.

Would it help to compile natively? Would it do any good? Or is it just a memory leak
that needs to be fixed?