Memory Profiling Tomcat Running as Service

[Lionel Port]

Does anyone have any good experiences running a memory profiler with Tomcat running as a Windows Service.

We have a memory (leak) problem in production and are unable to reproduce it in our development environment.

I've tried a few profilers my latest being yourkit java profiler. They seem to run fine by adding the profiler agent as a jvm options in the batch file and running tomcat from there.
However, when I try it with a Tomcat installed as a service by adding the jvm option to the registry and restarting tomcat it seems to fail and I don't get an error messages in the log, so I have no idea how to fix it.

Help is appreciated.

[Saulius Sinkunas]

Hm, why couldn't you run your Tomcat as simple application (not as service) and profile? Anyway running Java applications as Windows services isn't a very good idea.

[William Brogden]

 

Anyway running Java applications as Windows services isn't a very good idea.

Where did you get that idea? People do it all the time. I have a Win2003 server running IIS and Tomcat as a service for months with no trouble.
Bill