On 09/04/2013 04:18 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote: > ----- 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
OK, this looks like the right thing to do. Andrew.
