Runaway Java processes?

Hi All,

Recently installed NetFlow Manager (64bit - linux) - and it all is nice and well. We have noticed however that since running NetFlow Manager, that it is starting an huge amount of java processes, and they never seem to be killed.

As the attached graph indicated, we litterally have a linear growth in process count, and they never seem to be killed at all. I am worried that the amount of java processes spawned, will eventually kill our server. We currently have 452 java processes running, and NetFlow Manager is the only java application running on the box.

There's not allot of web activitity (one or three concurrent sessions), and three devices exporting netflows to NetFlow Manager...

Do I need to worry about this, or will the amount of processes at some stage level off?

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Chris.