serverside programs

[Jeff Sturm]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Erik Poupaert wrote:
> 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?

Assuming no bugs in blackdown-jdk that cause dead objects to be retained,
it sounds like a problem in the code that would likely also manifest under
gcj.

Jeff