[jboss-user] [Performance Tuning] - Re: JBoss/JVM process RAM usage increasing steadily

Peter Johnson [https://community.jboss.org/people/peterj] created the discussion "Re: JBoss/JVM process RAM usage increasing steadily" To view the discussion, visit: https://community.jboss.org/message/722166#722166 -------------------------------------------------------------- RAM for a Java app is consumed by more than just heap (RAM usage for the heap will never exceed 2048MB in your case). See this for a list of everything that can use up RAM: http://www.coderanch.com/t/111262/Linux-UNIX/read-memory-usage-process-ru... http://www.coderanch.com/t/111262/Linux-UNIX/read-memory-usage-process-ru... How many threads are running? Have the number of threads increased? If so, that could account for the additonal RAM usage. -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [https://community.jboss.org/message/722166#722166] Start a new discussion in Performance Tuning at Community [https://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]