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Chuck,

On 3/16/2009 4:51 PM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
>> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] 
>> Subject: Re: MemoryLeak Problem with ThreadWithAttributes
>>
>> The current version of ThreadWithAttributes doesn't have any 
>> methods with locals of type Object[]
> 
> These aren't local variables, these are references local to the
> object.  There are at least two such Object arrays in TWA: notes, and
> thData.  The notes array is fixed at 16 entries, so it must be
> thData.

Aah... I was having trouble interpreting the screenshot. Some of the
objects had "names" so I assumed "local" meant that it was a local (to
the method) whose name was lost at compile time.

> The thData array is set by a call to setThreadData(), and can only
> be cleared by said call with a null parameter. But there are no such calls,
> so once it's set, the array is kept.
> 
> (All of the above is true from 5.5.15 through 6.0.18.)
> 
> I'm still chasing what the array is used for.

An interesting and short read:
http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=80777

Back in 2003, Remy makes a claim that almost sounds like thData is
deprecated and unused. I'm interested in what you find.

- -chris
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