Unfortunately, it's not ok sometimes. For instance, when Lucene is loaded by a web-application from its WEB-INF/lib and SegmentReader is initialized during the application start-up (i.e. it's initialized in the thread which will never die), this causes problems with unloading of a classloader of the web-application. When web-application is undeployed, there's still a ThreadLocal in a thread which is external to webapp classloader, and this ThreadLocal contains an object which references its class, and this class was loaded through web-app classloader and hence references it... so we have a chain of hard links from an alive thread to our classloader. In the result, the classloader cannot be unloaded together will all its classes, so memory waste is considerable.
I've found a way to work this around by creating a new thread during webapp start-up and executing code which eventually initializes Lucene indices from this thread, so all spawned ThreadLocals go to this short-lived thread and get garbage-collected shortly after the webapp start-up is finished. But this does not seem to be a pretty solution. Besides, one has to guess that ThreadLocals are the problem to invent such a work-around :) Michael McCandless-2 wrote: > > > Well ... if the thread dies, the value in its ThreadLocal should be > GC'd. > > If the thread does not die (eg thread pool in an app server) then the > ThreadLocal value remains, but that value is a shallow clone of the > original TermVectorsReader and should not be consuming that much RAM > per thread. > > So I think it's OK? > > Mike > > Roman Puchkovskiy wrote: > >> >> Hi. >> >> There's a ThreadLocal field in SegmentReader (it's called >> termVectorsLocal). >> Some value is put to it, but it's never cleared. >> Is it ok? It looks like sometimes this behavior may lead to leaks. >> >> This is the same in lucene-2.2.0 and lucene-2.3.2. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/ThreadLocal-in-SegmentReader-tp18306230p18306230.html >> Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/ThreadLocal-in-SegmentReader-tp18306230p18314310.html Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]