Re: PCRegistry ClassLoader memory leak

[Marc Prud'hommeaux]

Correct me if I am wrong, but I think the problem is essentially that  
we have a Map of SomeClass:Object->Object->...->SomeClass, and  
therefore SomeClass can never be garbage collected, regardless of  
whether the keys in the Map are soft or weak, and regardless of  
whether the class' ClassLoader is referenced elsewhere or not.

Another possible solution might be to find every place where we have  
a Class field that could possibly be set to a PersistenceCapable, and  
turn them all into a WeakReference<Class>. I haven't checked to see  
how big a change that would be, but it might be one of the simpler  
solutions (and it might be faster than storing the class name as a  
String and doing a Class.forName() every time we need access to the  
Class object).


On Jul 17, 2007, at 10:14 AM, Patrick Linskey wrote:

Of course, another approach is for Geronimo to trash the classloader
that OpenJPA was loaded in when the app is undeployed.

-Patrick

On 7/17/07, robert burrell donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
wrote:
On 7/17/07, Kevan Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Jul 17, 2007, at 12:15 AM, Craig L Russell wrote:
>
> >
> > On Jul 16, 2007, at 7:48 PM, Kevan Miller wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Jul 16, 2007, at 10:26 PM, Pinaki Poddar wrote:
> >>
> >>> Just to clarify:
> >>> I meant it should be the loader that loaded Person.class where
> >>> Person is
> >>> the persistence capable class, *not*
> >>>  
org.apache.openjpa.enhance.PersistenceCapable.class.getClassLoader
> >>> ().
> >>>
> >>> But testing in multi-classloader environment is required to
> >>> validate any
> >>> changes of this nature.
> >>
> >> Yes, that's how I interpreted your statement. My point is  
that if
> >> SSN is a field of Person, the ClassLoader of SSN is not
> >> necessarily the ClassLoader for Person. I'd be concerned that  
the
> >> Person ClassLoader can't load SSN. In that case, your technique
> >> wouldn't work...
> >
> > Just to clarify, if SSN is the type of a field of Person, the
> > ClassLoader of Person.class must be able to load SSN (either  
itself
> > or via a parent ClassLoader) or you will have a linkage error  
while
> > loading Person.
>
> Craig,
> You are correct. The declared type must be loadable. I was thinking
> of an SSNImpl type which need not be. However, that's not really
> relevant to the problem at hand...
>
> Pinaki,
> I'm afraid that I may have improperly narrowed your objectives by
> singling out fieldTypes. PCRegistry$Meta.pc and pcSuper could also
> keep Classes/ClassLoaders alive...

if there are several places where this may happen then perhaps  try a
variant on http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/commons/proper/ 
logging/trunk/src/java/org/apache/commons/logging/impl/ 
WeakHashtable.java

- robert



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