Hi On Mon 30-Jan-2006 at 09:28:04AM +0000, Tom Brown wrote: > > any ideas? > > PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND > 15481 root 16 0 507M 377M 334M S 0.9 37.6 0:03 java I'd guess at a memory leak in the java application -- restart tomcat and see if that helps. If it does you might need to set up a cron job to restart tomcat as a way of stopping the memory usage getting out of hand... Chris -- Chris Croome <chris at webarchitects.co.uk> web design http://www.webarchitects.co.uk/ web content management http://mkdoc.com/