GROOVY-7591 "Use of ClassValue causes major memory leak",
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-7591
introduced a new System Property groovy.use.shareclasses in
Groovy 2.4.5 and 2.4.6 which is "false" by default.
But this also caused follow-up issues with garbage collection
of "Groovy" classes, which go away if setting
groovy.use.shareclasses=true, which was also my experience.
GROOVY-7683 Memory leak when using Groovy as JSR-223 scripting language
GROOVY-7646 Classes generated by Eval() never collected from
Permgen/Metaspace
"Not to ClassValue" (default):
Don't do this if you parse many Groovy scripts or only load
many classes compiled from Groovy scripts - this will fill up
PermGen/Metaspace and blow up with an "OutOfMemoryError" and
you will see lots of MetaMethodIndex$Entry in heap dumps. (Right?)
"To ClassValue":
Personally, I have not observed any issues with this setting,
with Groovy 2.4.6 - under which circumstances would I have a
leak with groovy.use.shareclasses=true?
Can this be explained in a few sentences?
There has been some very recent conversation at GROOVY-7683 by
John Wagenleitner and Jochen Theodorou, so maybe there is a fix
for an upcoming version in preparation?
Any news on that which could already be communicated here?
Best wishes,
Alain
