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From: "Peter M. Goldstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> All,
>
> Ok folks, we've found the big non-scheduler memory leak.  The source can
> be found in the MimeMessageInputStreamSource.  The use of the
> deleteOnExit() method either caused a JVM internal list to grow without
> bound or prevented cleanup of the temporary file objects.  Whatever the
> exact details, it's clear that this is the source of the problem. The
> dependence on the finalizer method for file cleanup is another severe
> problem in this class.   Removing the deleteOnExit and adding an
> explicit dispose() chain to force deletion of the file resolves this
> memory issue.


Very good stuff.  :-)
Trully awesome.


>
> In the process of resolving this, we discovered a serious bug in the
> Avalon Excalibur DefaultPool and DefaultThreadPool implementations.
> Basically, if an interrupted thread attempts to return an object to the
> pool, it corrupts the mutex of the pool and causes an eventual
> catastrophic failure.  This issue is currently under discussion on the
> Avalon-dev list.

I have always wondered about avalon folks creating threading library. I
wonder why they didn't use Doug Lea's util concurrent. At one point there
was talk using it and but not sure why they invented their own.

Harmeet


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