nate.tade@gmail.com <nate.tade@gmail.com> wrote:
> I help to administer about 40 AIX boxen, about 5 of these are oracle
> application servers (9i r1, aix 4.3.3 & 5.2r4). We are currently
> rebooting these machines nightly because java does not let go of memory
> correctly and will bog the box down(thats what I have been told
> anyways.) Has anyone else experienced this type of problem and found a
> work around to free up memory that has been snatched up by java/oracle
> app server but is not being used.
>
> This gets really silly when our testers ask to have the stress-test
> server rebooted before they run a stress-test... The poor box (p650 aix
> 5.2r4) ends up being rebooted multiple times a day which just seems so
> wrong with AIX!?!?

The simple solution would be to kill and restart the Java program and
not the machine.
If the problem is within oracle, shut down the instance.
Kill all Java processes left alive, and restart the instance.

That should be faster as well.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe