Re: free memory usage

[jbrown105@speedymail.org]

On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 11:25:31AM +0000, - Luis - wrote:
> Hi everyone, 
> 
> I got a RH7.3 box which runs a java app, but i got the problem that the app 
> didn't close the session with the server, so every day i got to reset the 
> server to free the memory use by all the java sessions.  The first thing i 
> try, was to use a bash script to kill all the java sessions, but i find out 
> that the memory was still full, so the question is:
> 
> How can i free that memory without rebooting the server?
> 
> Thanks a lot 
> -- 
> Luis Valencia

If 'kill -SIGTERM' doesnt work, then 'kill -SIGKILL' should.

On getting a sigkill the app is required to quit and free all of its
memory (as well as close files etc).

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