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Remko Popma reassigned LOG4J2-578:
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    Assignee: Remko Popma

> JMX Memory Leak in Servlet Container
> ------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LOG4J2-578
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-578
>             Project: Log4j 2
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Core
>    Affects Versions: 2.0-rc1
>         Environment: Ubuntu 12.04
> Linux 3.2.0-58-generic x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 8 GB RAM
> java version "1.7.0_51"
> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_51-b13)
> Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.51-b03, mixed mode)
> JAVA_OPTS=-Xmx1024m -Dsun.net.inetaddr.ttl=60 
> -Dsun.net.inetaddr.negative.ttl=60 -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true 
> -XX:PermSize=128m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC 
> -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled
>            Reporter: Scott
>            Assignee: Remko Popma
>            Priority: Critical
>              Labels: memory_leak
>
> If JMX is enabled in Log4j2 (it is by default) and a web application is 
> unloaded then Log4j2 creates a memory leak. This can be observed by deploying 
> a web application to tomcat7 and exercising the stop, undeploy, or redeploy 
> actions. The "unloaded" terminology is meant to be generic across servlet 
> containers in that any action which is designed to make the web application 
> classes eligible for GC.  The memory leak is believed to be caused by log4j 
> for the following reasons:
> 1)Heap Dump reveals the classloader instance responsible for the WAR plugin 
> (for tomcat7 is of type 
> {code}org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader{code}) has 1 non weak/soft 
> reference which is of type 
> {code}org.apache.logging.log4j.core.jmx.LoggerContextAdmin{code} after the 
> WAR has been stopped or undeployed.
> 2) Disabling JMX in Log4j2 (see 
> [http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/jmx.html]) results in no memory 
> leaks and all resources are GC as expected.



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