Hi Matthew, > None of this is code we are writing, its all internal to > Restlet, all we are doing is calling > EncodeRepresentation.getText() and that method call causes > all the other stuff to happen. I can't see how our code has > any impact on the closing of the stream and shutting down of > the thread.
OK. > It also appears that this is not a problem under linux, we > will test under windows, but it may be its a Mac specific thing. Which HTTP server connector are you using? Have you tried another connector? > In terms of end to end functionality, our use of GZip > encoding works fine and the encoded representations make it > from client to server OK, so the concern is simply that there > end up being hundreds of these "dead corpse" threads left > over as our software runs for longer. As suggested by Tim, I have added an explicit call to setDaemon(false) in the ByteUtils class, before starting the IO threads. I hope that this can workaround the issue. Could anyone test? This has been checked in SVN trunk and 1.0 branch. Best regards, Jerome
