Tomcat out of memory

From: Dale (dalelum_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/27/04 

Date: 27 Sep 2004 10:51:00 -0700

I've a situation where Tomcat is crashing with an out of memory error
every 24-48 hours. I think I may have narrowed down the cause: we have
tens of thousands of jsp pages, and every time one of them is compiled
i see the heap size grow, and it never shrinks back down. Eventually
Tomcat becomes unresponsive, writes out of memory to the catalina log,
and I have to restart it. Here's what I'm running:

RedHat Linux ES 3.0
Apache 2.0.46 with ( mod_jk )
Tomcat 4.1.24
Sun j2sdk 1.4.2_03

My question is, I've explicitly set it in the web.xml configuration so
that Tomcat forks javac processes to another memory partition. Even
so, I'm seeing out of memory reported by Tomcat. Is this a memory leak
in javac, Ant, or is my original hypothesis incorrect?

thanks,
Dale

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