[NTLUG:Discuss] Two Questions

Chris Cox cjcox at acm.org
Tue Jul 9 15:40:25 CDT 2002


TJ Davis wrote:

> I have two questions that are totally unrelated.
>
> First of all.  I am using OpenOffice on RedHat Linux 7.3 at home and I 
> have noticed that when I close it does not free the memory that it 
> used (about 100mb worth).  Is there a command I can type or a program 
> that I can use to recover this memory?  This is a real problem because 
> if I close OpenOffice and then open it again then it takes another 
> 100mb of RAM.  I thought that the system might recover it eventually 
> but I left it running all night and this morning it was still unrecovered.
>
How are you mesuring the memory loss?  Could be that there is some kind 
leak... but would
be interesting to see if the memory is associated with a process or if 
it's the kernel.

> Second question.  I am trying to configure Jakarta Tomcat and the 
> Apache webserver to work together by using mod_jk but I cannot figure 
> out where to get mod_jk.  Can someone give me some hints on where to 
> get mod_jk and a few tips on how to install it?
>
Look in the source for tomcat (something like src/native/apache...). 
 Building is not particularly trivial.
Things may have changed quite a bit for version 4 also (there's now the 
webapp method vs. using mod_jk...
though I hear that mod_jk works for more folks than does webapp).

There is some documentation on the apache jakarta website, but sometimes 
it's not in the most
intutitive places (they have a search pane though).

HTH,
Chris







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