Increasing memory used by java process when calling Runtime.exec()

Question

Hi everyone!
I'm running a servlet Oracle iAS 9i, Jserv. It receives an image posted by a user and does a System.exec() which performs a call to convert (an image processing utility included in ImageMagick).
After a few hours, java process start taking more and more RAM, until it crashes with an error like this:
Memory: 5394008 free of 134217728 total. (I log this myself)
Exception: java.io.IOException: Not enough space
java.lang.UNIXProcess.forkAndExec(), line -2.
java.lang.UNIXProcess.<init>(), line 54.
java.lang.Runtime.execInternal(), line -2.
java.lang.Runtime.exec(), line 553.
ImageProcessor.convert(), line 235.
ImageProcessor.createItemPics(), line 124.
Uploader.doPost(), line 69.
As you can see, this is not an OutOfMemoryError, but something else in connection with O/S.
This is not related to hard disk space, since there is a lot of free space in every filesystems
After restarting the webserver, everything goes back to normal and start increasing RAM again.
Is there anything I can do? Any help will be gratly appreciated... Thanks!!!
Dani.-

Answer 1

Have you had any solutions to this pal?
I am also suffering. I tried closing the processes by:
Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime();
Process proc = runtime.exec("/opt/sta_rpms.sh " + sFileName);
proc.waitFor();
proc.getInputStream().close();
proc.getOutputStream().close();
proc.getErrorStream().close();
proc.destroy();
proc = null;
but still after like a day...Though our codes are not alike, it sounds like the same reason.
Cheers!