Hey Darren,

There is nothing to worry about. That is how Java applications usually behave. Java is responsible for collecting garbage (i.e. things no longer used) and clean up memory. The garbage collector process performs a balance between CPU consumption and amount of free memory. While there is still space in memory the garbage collector will perform incremental garbage collects but will leave heavy work until there is no more room in memory. Once memory is getting exhausted the GC will perform a full GC and will remove all old objects.

This means that if you decrease the amount of memory you give to Wildfire then the garbage collector will probably run more full GCs to release more memory and make room for new objects to create.

However, if you see the memory consumption is always going up and nothing is released after a full GC then there is a memory leak. As of Wildfire 2.6.2 there is not know memory leaking so you should be fine.

Regards,

  -- Gato