--- On Thu, 3/25/10, Adam Heath <doo...@brainfood.com> wrote: > Adrian Crum wrote: > > I have been working on some ideas with the goal of > making Groovy a > > viable alternative to mini-language. I already > committed some code that > > allows methods within a Groovy script to be called, so > that multiple > > services can be included in one file - just like in > Java or mini-language. > > Be very very careful. If you do this, you'll increase > permgen usage. > Each groovy script is a class, and if those classes are > kept around, > they'll take up precious permgen space.
One of the things I noticed about the existing GroovyUtil code is that a class loader instance is created for each class. I'm sure the code was copied from a Groovy tutorial or code example. Each class loader instance holds a reference to the thread's class loader. I'm not a permgen memory expert, but it appears to me that way of doing things will result in memory leaks. I can't use jmap because I'm running Windows, otherwise I would do some research. Any hints or suggestions would be welcome. -Adrian
