Howdy, Thanks for posting the follow-up. >In my opinion, the class loader for tomcat should keep track of all the >classes it's loading. When the context gets reloaded, it should then
Great. Now that you have the specs, why don't you submit a patch? ;) >discarded. Maybe that's why someone suggested implementing the >ServletContextListener (in another thread)? I don't know much about class >loaders! :) Not the same thing: the ServletContextListener solves other problems. Yoav Shapira > > >So, the work around until someone implements a ServletContextListener and >unloads their own static variables (probably variable=null is sufficient?) >is... >-XX:MaxPermSize=128m -XX:PermSize=XXm > >And an article that the Sun support guy gave me... >http://wireless.java.sun.com/midp/articles/garbagecollection2/ > > >Specifically related to -XX flags... >http://wireless.java.sun.com/midp/articles/garbagecollection2/#a.5 > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Shapira, Yoav [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: December 2, 2003 11:45 AM >> To: Tomcat Users List >> Subject: RE: Tomcat 4.0.x memory leak (not javac) >> >> >> Howdy, >> Since you can reproduce your error easily, can you narrow >> down which 3rd >> party library is keeping the references that cause the memory leak? >> >> Yoav Shapira >> Millennium ChemInformatics >> >> >> >-----Original Message----- >> >From: Trenton D. Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 1:43 PM >> >To: 'Tomcat Users List' >> >Subject: RE: Tomcat 4.0.x memory leak (not javac) >> > >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: David Rees [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Sent: December 2, 2003 11:01 AM >> >> To: Tomcat Users List >> >> Subject: Re: Tomcat 4.0.x memory leak (not javac) >> >> >> >> Shapira, Yoav wrote: >> >> > Besides what Senor Schultz said (which is 100% true), >> >> > 1. Where is this mentioned in the release notes, and what >> >> would one have >> >> > to search for? >> >> >> >> Under KNOWN ISSUES IN THIS RELEASE it does mention issues >> during web >> >> application reloading where shared libraries keep references >> >> to objects >> >> instantiated by the web application. That says "memory leak" to me >> >> although it doesn't specifically say that. >> >> >> >> > 2. You mentioned in your passage the bug was marked as invalid or >> >> > wontfix, and the bug you gave below is marked as new. >> So if anyone >> >> > actually wasted time (like me) looking up what you said, they >> didn't >> >> > find it. >> >> >> >> All I did was search for "memory leak" under Tomcat 4 and all >> >> status. I >> >> was not positive that it was marked WONTFIX, I should have >> clarified >> >> that in my original message. I had thought that the issue >> >> was something >> >> inherent to the design of Tomcat 4 (which was overhauled in >> >> Tomcat 5), >> >> but I'm sure that they are willing to accept patches if >> >> anyone can fix >> >> it. ;-) >> > >> >Bugzilla is obviously not working sometimes. I searched for "memory >> leak" >> >one >> >time and got it. Then I went to search for it for someone else so I >> could >> >give them the bug number but nothing came up. I did the exact same >> search, >> >"memory leak". Very interesting indeed. Heck, I even searched for >> just >> >"memory" or "leak" once each and came up with nothing. >> > >> >> >> >> -Dave >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> For additional commands, e-mail: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> > >> > >> >__ >> > This communication is intended for the use of the >> recipient to whom >> it >> > is addressed, and may contain confidential, personal, and or >> privileged >> > information. Please contact us immediately if you are not the >> intended >> > recipient of this communication, and do not copy, distribute, or >> take >> > action relying on it. 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