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Kevin Sutter commented on OPENJPA-285:
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Also, the two other patches attached to this Issue (JIRA-285.patch.txt and 
JIRA-285.patch.2.txt) are not being included in this commit processing.  
Neither of these were deemed to resolve the problem as originally reported.

> Multiple deploy/undeploy leaks memory in PCRegistry
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: OPENJPA-285
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENJPA-285
>             Project: OpenJPA
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: kernel
>    Affects Versions: 1.0.0
>         Environment: Geronimo 2.0
>            Reporter: Pinaki Poddar
>            Assignee: Kevin Sutter
>             Fix For: 1.0.0
>
>         Attachments: ImplHelperClassLoaderMemoryLeak.patch, 
> JIRA-285.patch.2.txt, JIRA-285.patch.txt, 
> PCRegistryClassLoaderMemoryLeak.patch
>
>
> Kevin Miller reported:
> Geronimo is running out of PermGen space in some simple deploy/ undeploy 
> scenarios involving OpenJPA. The cause of the problem seems to be the _metas 
> table in PCRegistry. _metas is a ConcurrentReferenceHashMap with WEAK 
> reference keys and HARD reference values. The keys are the PersistenceCapable 
> classes. While the values are the metadata for these classes which are 
> maintained by the internal Meta class.
> The cause of the ClassLoader memory leak is simple -- if any of the 
> objects/classes held by the Meta class (e.g. fieldTypes) have also been 
> loaded by the same ClassLoader used to load the PersistenceCapable class, the 
> PersistenceCapable class (the weak key) will never be GCed. The value of the 
> HashMap entry will always maintain a hard reference to the ClassLoader. Since 
> the ClassLoader will never be GC'ed, the the the pcClass Class object will 
> never be GC'able...
> The problem can be easily recreated using current Geronimo trunk and the 
> Geronimo Daytrader application.
> Patrick Linskey suggested:
> Change PCRegistry.fieldTypes to be String[] instead of Class[], and 
> dematerialize them as needed.
> Robert Burrell Donkin/Marc Prud'hommeaux  both pointed out that alternatives 
> such as to
> listen for the death of a ClassLoader and manually unregistering metadata 
> would be more costly in terms of complexity.
> This patch follows Patrick's suggestion.
> 1. Changes the Meta.fieldTypes to String[] from Class[]
> 2. Adapts the enhanced bytecode accordingly to the modified method signatures
> 3. PCRegistry getFieldTypes() load the fields' declared type using the same 
> loader that loaded the owner pc class. 
> Note: For a class C and its field f,  CL(c) == CL(f) is not always true. 
> (Kevin Miller)
>           But CL(c) will be able to load declared type of f  either directly 
> or via one of its parent (Craig Russel)

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