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Gary Gregory commented on LOG4J2-819:
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Users can always shoot themselves in the foot ;) If we give them a gun in the
form of a threaded clock, we should at the very least give programmatic access
to unload the gun (stop the thread). My inclination is to commit the clock
changes, but not hook up calls to stop the clock, then discuss it some more.
> PermGen OutOfMemoryError when reloading webapp on Tomcat 6
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> Key: LOG4J2-819
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-819
> Project: Log4j 2
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Core
> Affects Versions: 2.0.2
> Environment: Tomcat 6
> Reporter: Costa Theodosiou
> Priority: Critical
> Attachments: gg-log4j2-clocks.patch
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> When reloading an application 3 or 4 times in Tomcat 6, the application
> crashes with a "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space" exception.
> After some investigation using the "When all else fails" section of
> https://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/OutOfMemory in conjunction with Java VisualVM,
> I have narrowed down the problem to the Thread created within
> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.util.CoarseCachedClock.
> When a Thread is created, it contains a reference to the classloader that it
> was created with. In this case, the Thread's contextClassLoader field
> contains a reference to the WebappClassLoader. When Tomcat attempts to unload
> the webapp, the Thread still holds onto this reference which prevents
> WebappClassLoader from being freed.
> Perhaps the Log4jServletContextListener (Log4jWebInitializerImpl) can be made
> to stop the CoarseCachedClock thread.
> I believe this is not an obvious issue on Tomcat 7 due to
> https://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/MemoryLeakProtection.
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