Hi Juan, I think your problem can't be solved (only) by Tomcat. The problem is that objets stay in memory because of pointers on static references...
To solve this : You can embed a CleanupListener in your webapp. This listener seem to be like this : ------------ package com.yourWebApp; import javax.servlet.ServletContextEvent; import javax.servlet.ServletContextListener; public class CleanupListener implements ServletContextListener { public MyCleanupListener() { super(); } public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent event) { } public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent event) { MySingleton.delInstance(); } } ----------- Before this, you have to 1) modify your MySingleton with : public static void delInstance() { if (_instance != null) { _instance._charWidths=null; } _instance = null; } 2) add, in web.xml : <listener> <listener-class>com.yourWebApp.CleanupListener</listener-class> </listener> Notes : - Perhaps your Listener will have to delete other objets like SQL drivers, commons logger, ... - see also : http://opensource2.atlassian.com/confluence/spring/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=2669 Regards. On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 08:29:13 +0000 kurrele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi to everyone!! This is my first email to this list, hope is the correct > one. > > I've been analyzing my code with a profiler (JProbe) because I was getting > an > OutOfMemoryException after a few redeploys of my application. > > After some tests, it turned out that my static fields were not GCed after > redeploying, getting stuck with the classloader which loaded my classes. > > After that, I searched the bugzilla and found > *Bug# *(Memory Leak in Classloader/Manager deploy/undeploy)*:* > 20758<http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20758> > where it says that the bug has been FIXED. > > I tested it in Tomcat 4.1.24 and 5.0.28 getting the same result (memory leak > in static fields). > > I attach here the servlet and singleton of my simple test webapp. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > public class Test extends HttpServlet > { > > MySingleton singleton = MySingleton.getInstance(); > > public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException > { > super.init(config); > > } > > public void destroy() > { > singleton = null; > } > > protected void processRequest(HttpServletRequest request, > HttpServletResponse response) > throws ServletException, IOException > { > response.setContentType("text/html"); > PrintWriter out = response.getWriter(); > out.println("<html><head><title>JProbe TEST > singleton</title></head><body><b>JProbe TEST > singleton</b><BR></body></html>"); > out.close(); > } > protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse > response) > throws ServletException, IOException > { > processRequest(request, response); > } > > protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse > response) > throws ServletException, IOException > { > processRequest(request, response); > } > } > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > public class MySingleton > { > > private static MySingleton _instance = new MySingleton(); > > public byte[] _charWidths = new byte[1024*1024]; // 1Meg mem > allocation!!. > > private MySingleton() > {} > > public static MySingleton getInstance() > { > return _instance; > } > > public void finalize() > { > System.out.println("!!! END-MySingleton !!!"); > _instance = null; > } > } > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > After redeploying this simple webapp a 1Meg leak can be found due to > MySingleton not being GCed. > > Please I want to know If I'm leaving out something, the bug is not really > fixed or I need to take another approach. > > Thanks. > > Juan F. S. (Spain). > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]