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Jörg Rathlev commented on SOLR-10506:
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bq. Nice. Just wondering if SchemaWatcher objects are also not retained or if
they stick around?
They stick around until the Zookeeper connector releases the reference to the
watcher. I had looked at your exploration, but I wasn't sure if reassigning the
existing watcher to a new reader/core works because it would mean that the
previous core will no longer be notified on schema updates, but it might still
be open for a while. I think that reusing the watchers requires a bigger
restructuring of the code, so that one reusable watcher can notify multiple
schema readers.
My preference would be to open a separate issue for that, because I think the
watchers by themselves are lightweight objects, while this issue is currently
causing actual production outages for us (or it would if we didn't use a
locally patched version).
> Possible memory leak upon collection reload
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>
> Key: SOLR-10506
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-10506
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: Bug
> Security Level: Public(Default Security Level. Issues are Public)
> Components: Server
> Affects Versions: 6.5
> Reporter: Torsten Bøgh Köster
> Attachments: solr_collection_reload_13_cores.png,
> solr_gc_path_via_zk_WatchManager.png
>
>
> Upon manual Solr Collection reloading, references to the closed {{SolrCore}}
> are not fully removed by the garbage collector as a strong reference to the
> {{ZkIndexSchemaReader}} is held in a ZooKeeper {{Watcher}} that watches for
> schema changes.
> In our case, this leads to a massive memory leak as managed resources are
> still referenced by the closed {{SolrCore}}. Our Solr cloud environment
> utilizes rather large managed resources (synonyms, stopwords). To reproduce,
> we fired out environment up and reloaded the collection 13 times. As a result
> we fully exhausted our heap. A closer look with the Yourkit profiler revealed
> 13 {{SolrCore}} instances, still holding strong references to the garbage
> collection root (see screenshot 1).
> Each {{SolrCore}} instance holds a single path with strong references to the
> gc root via a `Watcher` in `ZkIndexSchemaReader` (see screenshot 2). The
> {{ZkIndexSchemaReader}} registers a close hook in the {{SolrCore}} but the
> Zookeeper is not removed upon core close.
> We supplied a Github Pull Request
> (https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr/pull/197) that extracts the zookeeper
> `Watcher` as a static inner class. To eliminate the memory leak, the schema
> reader is held inside a `WeakReference` and the reference is explicitly
> removed on core close.
> Initially I wanted to supply a test case but unfortunately did not find a
> good starting point ...
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