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IT god exposed as false idol by quirks of Java – until he laid his hands on the server

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Re: For the non-programmers amongst us...

I might oversimplify the problem but it sounds like an ordinary memory leak to me. If that part of the heap was only loaded into memory from the page file for the occasional GC run, that means the data contained within was not used, ever.

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