# Wowza Java Process eating up whole server memory

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-java-process-eating-up-whole-server-memory/38422>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [May 18, 2012, 7:27pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-java-process-eating-up-whole-server-memory/38422 "2012-05-18T19:27:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Test\_Account](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Test\_Account](https://community.wowza.com/u/Test_Account)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 7:27pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-java-process-eating-up-whole-server-memory/38422/1 "2012-05-18T19:27:32Z")

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Hello Forum,

I have a very strange problem that i came across. Whenever i start wowza the java.exe process starts up. It runs and its ok. But after few days when i look at this process the physical memory used by the java process increases. And if i leave the process running as it is, it eats up the whole memory of my windows server 2008 which is 8GB, so makes my server to restart. How can i fix this problem. Please help me out.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Randall\_Auriemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@Randall\_Auriemma](https://community.wowza.com/u/Randall_Auriemma)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 4:14am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-java-process-eating-up-whole-server-memory/38422/2 "2012-05-18T04:14:46Z")

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Are you running any custom modules? See here for suggestions on submitting a support request. For example, which Wowza version?

To control how much RAM the java process uses you can set the max heap size. Follow the [tuning guide](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-do-performance-tuning).

Try the different garbage collection settings.

If that doesn’t fix it, you can check for a [memory leak](http://java.dzone.com/news/how-fix-memory-leaks-java).