Thanks. I have a series of changes I am preparing to resolve the leaks in
the git plugin.  I am looking for more general purpose automated detection
of it is available.

Mark Waite
On Jan 3, 2014 6:11 AM, "Dominik Bartholdi" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
> I had exactly the same issues when I was implementing the jgit provider
> for maven - we even raised an issue against jgit (
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=420502), but it came down
> to the fact, that I have not closed the jgit repo after usage.
> The commit where i fixed the issue on the maven-scm-provider-jgit is this
> one:
> https://github.com/apache/maven-scm/commit/0760079f1e6accc86a6cb308ffa4fa9c9351832a
> Unfortunately all or test where ok when they where running on an *nix
> systems - only windows gave us headaches.
> /Domi
>
> On 02.01.2014, at 21:33, Mark Waite <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Is there any way to easily include assertions in plugin unit test setUp()
> and tearDown() that no open file leaks have happened during that test?
>
> There are several bug reports against the Git plugin related to files
> opened which are not closed.  Files opened by a process prevent the
> deletion of that file on Microsoft Windows file systems.
>
> I believe the same type of problem is now also affecting the Jenkins core.
>  I executed the Jenkins tests on a Windows machine and several of the tests
> failed with messages which seemed to indicate the same type of file closing
> challenges as exist for the Git plugin.
>
> I assume those same types of issues exist in other plugins as well.
>
> There is a leak detector plugin available from the Update Center which is
> very helpful on Linux.  I've used it to confirm that some of the Git plugin
> open file leaks are from the JGit implementation, and have also used it to
> identify open file leaks in the Git plugin source code.
>
> The Git plugin has a form of that detection incorporated, but it depends
> on the test using temporary file allocation and then it detects the failure
> to cleanup those temporary files on exit.
>
> Some of the Git plugin bug reports related to open file leaks are:
>
> https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-19994 - cannot delete
> workspace
> https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-18843 - pack file busy from
> JGit (newer)
> https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-15103 - pack file busy
> (older bug)
> https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-20585 - changelog busy
>
> I'm sure I can find similar issues in many other plugins and in Jenkins
> core if I search
>
> The best solution I've found thus far has been interactive testing with
> the leak detector plugin enabled on Linux to detect open file leaks.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark Waite
>
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