Re: [jetty-users] Limit memory

[John English <john.foreign@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 6:32 AM, Per Qvindesland wrote:
>     Is there any way of limiting jetty's memory usage? I ps -ef | grep
>     jetty8 gives /usr/lib/jvm/default-java/bin/java -Xmx768m which
>     suggests that there is already a memory limit in use but as I
>     mentioned jetty every now and so often starts using memory way to
>     much so I don't think it's using the limitation.

Chances are it's a memory leak in your code; e.g. ResultSets from a DB 
query not being closed properly in all cases. If you enable JMX you can 
use it to take a snapshot of memory usage; IIRC Eclipse has a handy 
plugin to let you analyse the dump to look for leaks.

HTH,
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John English