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Alex Parvulescu commented on JCR-3151:
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thanks for the feedback guys!
I'll apply the patch shortly.
> SharedFieldCache can cause a memory leak
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> Key: JCR-3151
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-3151
> Project: Jackrabbit Content Repository
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: jackrabbit-core
> Reporter: Alex Parvulescu
> Attachments: JCR-3151.patch
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> The SharedFieldCache has some problems with the way it builds the cache:
> - as key is has the IndexReader
> - as value it has a inner cache (another map) that has as a key a static
> inner class called 'Key'.
> This 'Key' holds a reference to the comparator used for in the queries ran.
> Assuming this comparator is of any type that extends from
> AbstractFieldComparator (I think all of the custom JR comparators), then it
> keeps a reference to all the InderReader instances in order to be able to
> load the values as Comparable(s).
> So the circle is complete and the SharedFieldCache entries never get GC'ed.
> One option would have been to implement a 'purge' method on the cache,
> similar to the lucene mechanism, and when an InderReader gets closed is could
> call 'purge'. But that is both ugly AND is doesn't seem to work that well :)
> A more radical option is to remove the cache completely. Each instance of
> SimpleFieldComparator (the only client of this cache) already builds an array
> of the available values, so the cache would only help other instances of the
> same type. We'll not analyze this further.
> The proposed solution (patch will follow shortly) is to remove the Comparator
> reference from the Key class.
> It looks like it has no real purpose there, just to impact the 'equals' of
> the key, which makes no sense in the first place as the lucene query does not
> use the Comparator info at all.
> If anything, using the same field and 2 different Comparators we'll get 2
> different cache entries based on the same values from the lucene index.
> Feedback is appreciated!
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