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Ben Manes resolved PDFBOX-4396.
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Resolution: Workaround
> Memory leak due to soft reference caching
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> Key: PDFBOX-4396
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-4396
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 2.0.12
> Environment: JDK10; G1
> Reporter: Ben Manes
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: #2 - memory leak 2.png, #2 - memory leak.png, memory
> leak 2.png, memory leak.png
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> In a heap dump, it appears that DefaultResourceCache is retaining 5.3 GB of
> memory due to buffered images (via PDImageXObject). I suspect that G1 is not
> collecting soft references across all regions before it out-of-memory errors.
> In PDFBOX-4389, I discovered very slow PDDocument#load times due to a JDK10
> I/O bug. Previously I was loading the document to render each page, but this
> took 1.5 minutes. To work around that bug I reused the document instance
> across pages. This seems to have fail because the pages were cached and not
> cleared by the GC.
> The DefaultResourceCache does not prune its cache entries when the soft
> references are collected. Like WeakHashMap, it should use a ReferenceQueue,
> poll it on every access, and prune accordingly.
> Thankfully PDDocument#setResourceCache exists. For now I am going to reset
> the cache to a new instance after a page has been rendered. The entries
> should no longer be reachable and be GC'd more aggressively. If that doesn't
> work, I'll either replace the cache (e.g. with Caffeine) or disable it by
> setting the instance to null.
> I think the desired fix is to prune the DefaultResourceCache and, ideally,
> reconsider usage of soft references (as they tend to be poor in practice).
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