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Thomas Mueller updated JCR-2402:
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    Status: Patch Available  (was: Open)

> Observation: avoid running out of memory
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>                 Key: JCR-2402
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-2402
>             Project: Jackrabbit Content Repository
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: jackrabbit-core, observation
>            Reporter: Thomas Mueller
>            Assignee: Thomas Mueller
>            Priority: Minor
>
> Jackrabbit uses an unbounded observation queue for event listeners (for 
> asynchronous listeners, which are the default). If an observation listener is 
> very slow, the observation queue gets larger and larger, and the JVM will 
> eventually run out of memory.
> I suggest to use a maximum queue size of 100'000 by default. Adding new 
> events to the queue will block until the observation listeners removed an 
> item. I'm not sure if we need a way to configure this option; probably a 
> system property is enough as a start (we can still add a better way to 
> configure this setting if it turns out somebody actually needs a different 
> value).
> A special case is observation listeners that themselves write to the 
> repository and therefore cause new events. In this case, it doesn't make 
> sense to block adding an event, because that would block the whole system. 
> However a warning should be written to the log file.

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