Post-ID: thread-20100108110611-qdb-301221 Created-At: 2010-01-08T11:06:11Z Board-Tags: general Imported-Score-Seed: 473 Imported-Vote-Count-Seed: 613 the thing about JVM is that it will almost never free memory it has once allocated from host. it has, at least historically, been a mistake to run anything else than one Java-based service per server instance. Indeed. The memory allocation strategy of Java can be described in 3 words. Nom nom nom.