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Piyush Khandelwal updated FOP-2937:
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Description:
PDFReference object holds a SoftReference of PDFObject (PDFPage, PDFLabel,
PDFName etc.).
If we generate a huge PDF ; *I tried with a PDF having around 150 thousand
pages with 12 GB of RAM;* lots of these references linger around waiting for
the garbage collector to collect them.
But GC wont collect them as long as JVM is able to recover enough memory
without throwing out of memory.
Here are few metadata from my testing for further understanding of the issue -
Stats for generating 1 PDF -
*FO size:* 2.03GB
*Generated PDF No. of Pages:* Around 150 K
RAM: 12 GB
Peak memory that reached while generation - 11.3GB
Residual memory after forced GC: 9 GB
The FO mainly contains tabular data with each pages sequence having max of 500
rows.
On analyzing the memory dump; found lots of reference for PDFPage, PDFName etc.
*Question - * Is there any specific reason for using SoftReference in
PDFReference class instead of WeakReference.
Testing by changing SoftReference to WeakReference in PDFReference shows
following improvements without any issue in the generation whatsoever -
Stats for Generating 5 PDF in parallel -
*FO size:* 2.03GB
*Generated PDF No. of Pages:* Around 150 K
RAM: 12 GB
Peak memory that reached while generation - 4GB
Residual memory after forced GC: 300 MB
So, by changing SoftReference to WeakReference, I was able to generate 5 PDF
having 150K pages in parallel with max 4GB Ram; without any generation issues.
You can clearly see the performance benefits of changing to WeakReference.
But as I dont understand the complete internal details of how FOP works, I
would like to understand if we can target this change and if not what is the
reason behind using SoftReference?
was:
PDFReference object holds a SoftReference of PDFObject (PDFPage, PDFLabel,
PDFName etc.).
If we generate a huge PDF ; *I tried with a PDF having around 150 thousand
pages with 12 GB of RAM;* lots of these references linger around waiting for
the garbage collector to collect them.
But GC wont collect them as long as JVM is able to recover enough memory
without throwing out of memory.
Here are few metadata from my testing for further understanding of the issue -
Stats for generating 1 PDF -
*FO size:* 2.03GB
*Generated PDF No. of Pages:* Around 150 K
RAM: 12 GB
Peak memory that reached while generation - 11.3GB
Residual memory after forced GC: 9 GB
The FO mainly contains tabular data with each pages sequence having max of 500
rows.
On analyzing the memory dump; found lots of reference for PDFPage, PDFName etc.
*Question - * Is there any specific reason for using SoftReference in
PDFReference class instead of WeakReference.
Testing by changing SoftReference to WeakReference in PDFReference shows
following improvements without any issue in the generation whatsoever -
Stats for Generating 5 PDF in parallel -
*FO size:* 2.03GB
*Generated PDF No. of Pages:* Around 150 K
RAM: 12 GB
Peak memory that reached while generation - 4GB
Residual memory after forced GC: 300 MB
So, by changing SoftReference to WeakReference, I was able to generate 5 PDF
having 150K pages in parallel with max 4GB Ram; without any generation issues.
*Question- * Is there any specific reason for using SoftReference in
PDFReference class instead of WeakReference?
You can clearly see the performance benefits of changing to WeakReference.
But as I dont understand the complete internal details of how FOP works, I
would like to understand if we can target this change and if not what is the
reason behind using SoftReference?
> Post PDF generation, Soft reference of PDFObject in PDFReference are not
> immediately garbage collected leading to excessive memory usage.
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>
> Key: FOP-2937
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOP-2937
> Project: FOP
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 2.3, 2.4
> Reporter: Piyush Khandelwal
> Priority: Major
>
> PDFReference object holds a SoftReference of PDFObject (PDFPage, PDFLabel,
> PDFName etc.).
> If we generate a huge PDF ; *I tried with a PDF having around 150 thousand
> pages with 12 GB of RAM;* lots of these references linger around waiting for
> the garbage collector to collect them.
> But GC wont collect them as long as JVM is able to recover enough memory
> without throwing out of memory.
> Here are few metadata from my testing for further understanding of the issue
> -
> Stats for generating 1 PDF -
> *FO size:* 2.03GB
> *Generated PDF No. of Pages:* Around 150 K
> RAM: 12 GB
> Peak memory that reached while generation - 11.3GB
> Residual memory after forced GC: 9 GB
> The FO mainly contains tabular data with each pages sequence having max of
> 500 rows.
> On analyzing the memory dump; found lots of reference for PDFPage, PDFName
> etc.
> *Question - * Is there any specific reason for using SoftReference in
> PDFReference class instead of WeakReference.
> Testing by changing SoftReference to WeakReference in PDFReference shows
> following improvements without any issue in the generation whatsoever -
> Stats for Generating 5 PDF in parallel -
> *FO size:* 2.03GB
> *Generated PDF No. of Pages:* Around 150 K
> RAM: 12 GB
> Peak memory that reached while generation - 4GB
> Residual memory after forced GC: 300 MB
> So, by changing SoftReference to WeakReference, I was able to generate 5 PDF
> having 150K pages in parallel with max 4GB Ram; without any generation
> issues.
> You can clearly see the performance benefits of changing to WeakReference.
> But as I dont understand the complete internal details of how FOP works, I
> would like to understand if we can target this change and if not what is the
> reason behind using SoftReference?
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