Josh McKenzie created CASSANDRA-17205: -----------------------------------------
Summary: File leaks will not be be detected and released due to strong self-references in the tidier Key: CASSANDRA-17205 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-17205 Project: Cassandra Issue Type: Bug Reporter: Josh McKenzie LogTransaction.SSTableTidier holds a reference to a {{Tracker}} which holds references to both a {{ColumnFamilyStore}} and a {{View}}, both of which hold refs to SSTableReaders. As per the comment at the top of the SSTableTidier: {quote}// must not retain a reference to the SSTableReader, else leak detection cannot kick in {quote} We shouldn't hold a reference to the Tracker here; long running unit tests w/-Dcassandra.debugrefcount=true had this pop up. {code}ERROR [Strong-Reference-Leak-Detector:1] 2020-10-27T01:10:12,421 NoSpamLogger.java:97 - Strong self-ref loop detected{code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.1#820001) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: commits-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: commits-h...@cassandra.apache.org