----- Original Message ----- > On 08/27/2013 12:01 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> Hi Andrew, > >> > >> On 08/27/2013 11:22 AM, Andrew Hughes wrote: > >>> 0. What problem does this solve? > >> > >> The current code has memory leaks. With some usage patterns, Java will > >> run heap space. For more details, please see the bug: > >> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8020983 > >> > > > > "This image writer object will never be garbage collected. This is > > reproducible with java 6u45. It works fine for us until version 6_u43." > > > > It sounds like a recent regression. Have you been able to reproduce the > > issue > > on OpenJDK 6? > > Yes, it was originally reported against icedtea6-1.11: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976897 > > > Ok, it should probably also go in 1.11.x and 1.12.x if the issue is present > > there. > > Will do.
A number of other JPEG backports [0] were included in IcedTea 1.x and may be worth considering for OpenJDK. With these applied, 8020983 applies as it is in 7. [0] http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/rev/de0023a3d26d -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) PGP Key: 248BDC07 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EC5A 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F 8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07
