Yesterday I posted this question: Tomcat Excessive Memory Consumption
The thread was getting too long and detailed for anyone to continue helping. So now I am asking a more specific question.
When I run top
, I get this:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
13749 tomcat6 20 0 493m 82m 9972 S 0 9.0 0:07.34 java
This is a fresh install of Tomcat6 on Ubuntu 11.04 (Nattty) (64-bit).
As I understand it, VIRT is the virtual memory. Is 493m in the VIRT column a "normal" thing, or is that excessively high? Keep in mind that there are no web apps running in Tomcat right now. It's just the basic vanilla install.
How about the 82m in the RES column? What does this mean and how does it compare to VIRT? That is the amount of memory I would expect Tomcat to use.
My hosting company is using Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, and apparently the stats I am provided with on memory usage comes somewhere from there. The stats they show me are that I am using 110% of my 512MB memory limit (burstable). So in fact they are counting 400-500MB worth of memory from Tomcat.