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Date:      Wed, 6 Nov 2002 18:33:04 -0800
From:      Aditya <aditya@grot.org>
To:        freebsd-java@freebsd.org
Subject:   preventing the JVM from swapping to disk
Message-ID:  <20021107023304.GA75921@mighty.grot.org>

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On a server solely dedicated to running Tomcat with the linux-jdk1.3 and 1Gig
of RAM I'd like to prevent the JVM from ever swapping to disk. The preferred
behaviour when it runs out of memory is for the JVM to exit (it will be
restarted by a script). I'm allocating the JVM 700M for the min and max heap;
less than 100M is used by FreeBSD and the rest is occupied by the JVM.

Has anyone dealt with this type of situation? have you turned off all swap
partitions and had it "successfully" die or recover after garbage collection?

Google turns up very few leads other than the general "running without swap is
bad" type answers:

  http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2417102+0+archive/2001/freebsd-questions/20010225.freebsd-questions

but in this case I don't mind the JVM dying and I'm devoting the entire
machine to it, so other userland processes aren't as important...

Thanks,
Adi

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