RE: Growing memory footprint

I'm going to throw a little test case

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rakesh bhakta [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 20 September 2004 16:42
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Growing memory footprint
> 
> I am using merlin (artifact:merlin/merlin-impl#3.3.0") in an embedded
> style.  My application has a "restart" feature that calls the shutdown
> method of the current kernel, and then recreate it with
> factory.create(criteria).
> 
> At issue is the memory foot print after each restart.  It keeps
growing at
> about 8 to 10 Megs per restart.  Eventually, if enough restart occurs,
JVM
> runs out of memory in my memory constrained application.
> 
> Could this behavior be due to Merlin ?
> Could Merlin be hanging on to something after shutdown method is
called?
> Is there any cleanup I should due after shutdown method is called?

I need to check but there is a reference to the kernel held by a
shutdown hook - I'm just wondering if that is potentially keeping the
kernel in memory. 

Steve.