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Timothee Maret commented on DBCP-330:
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Hi, I have successfully tested the patch on my setup. I have monitored the
memory consumption with jprofiler, the DelegatingDatabaseMetaData objects get
properly garbage collected. thanks!
> Calling getMetaData() without closing the connection lead to a memory leak
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>
> Key: DBCP-330
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DBCP-330
> Project: Commons Dbcp
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 1.4
> Environment: Linux Mint 8 Helena - Universal Edition
> Linux version 2.6.31-14-generic (buildd@rothera) (gcc version 4.4.1 (Ubuntu
> 4.4.1-4ubuntu8) ) #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:04:26 UTC 2009
> java version "1.6.0_15"
> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_15-b03)
> Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 14.1-b02, mixed mode, sharing)
> Reporter: Timothee Maret
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 1.4.1
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> In my program, I am using a BasicDataSource to get my database connections. I
> have to keep one of the connection alive and thus never close it. On this
> connection, I have to periodically get the metadata (call the getMetaData()
> method) for my processing.
> However, I have noticed that each call to this method create a new
> DelegatingDatabaseMetaData instance which can't be garbage collected until
> the connection is closed. This creation of DelegatingDatabaseMetaData will
> finally consume all the memory and generate a OutOfMemory error.
> Actually, in it's constructor, the DelegatingDatabaseMetaData class calls its
> super constructor (from the AbandonedTrace class) which creates a reference
> (parent.addTrace(this);) from the connection to the
> DelegatingDatabaseMetaData. This reference prevent the
> DelegatingDatabaseMetaData to be collected until the Connection is closed.
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