Try the following unit test. On my machine 100 iterations are enough to break memory. As reported before, this problem is not specific to LRUMap but also in LinkedMap. Probelm in AbstractLinkedMap ?
public void testLRUMapSerializationDeserializationMemoryLeak () throws Exception { { // First prove that the test pass with normal HashMap HashMap map = new HashMap (1000); // Fill the map for (int i=0; i<1000; ++i) { map.put (String.valueOf (i), new Integer (i)); } File file = File.createTempFile("lrumap", "fortest"); // Do a serialize / deserialize loop, til memory breaks try { for (int l=0; l<100; ++l) { { FileOutputStream fileStream = new FileOutputStream(file); ObjectOutputStream objectStream = new ObjectOutputStream(fileStream); objectStream.writeObject(map); fileStream.close(); } { FileInputStream fileStream = new FileInputStream(file); ObjectInputStream objectStream = new ObjectInputStream(fileStream); map = (HashMap) objectStream.readObject(); fileStream.close(); } } } catch (OutOfMemoryError oome) { fail (oome.getClass ().getName ()); } } { // Then use apache LRUMap (same behavior with Linked map, I did not test the others) LRUMap map = new LRUMap (1000); // Fill the map for (int i=0; i<1000; ++i) { map.put (String.valueOf (i), new Integer (i)); } File file = File.createTempFile("lrumap", "fortest"); // Do a serialize / deserialize loop, til memory breaks try { for (int l=0; l<100; ++l) { { FileOutputStream fileStream = new FileOutputStream(file); ObjectOutputStream objectStream = new ObjectOutputStream(fileStream); objectStream.writeObject(map); fileStream.close(); } { FileInputStream fileStream = new FileInputStream(file); ObjectInputStream objectStream = new ObjectInputStream(fileStream); map = (LRUMap) objectStream.readObject(); fileStream.close(); } } } catch (OutOfMemoryError oome) { fail (oome.getClass ().getName ()); } } } -- o----------------------------------o | Marc Jambert | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | (tel) 05-67-77-19-72 | | (fax) 05-67-77-19-98 | o----------------------------------o | Vega Technologies | o----------------------------------o --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]