I am still using XEmacs and need to give Eclipse another try. The last time I tried Eclipse, some 6-12 months ago, I remember seeing Eclipse forcing garbage collection somehow. Thus, I would guess the command-line behaviour is probably correct and there is indeed a bug in Lucene's sorting.
Otis --- Daniel Naber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 19 September 2004 21:13, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: > > > It would be good to take care of that memory leak issue that comes > up > > when people use sorting. Dave Spencer found one Comparator or Map > or > > something that looked suspicious. > > Yes, the "Comparator" WeakHashMap in FieldSortedHitQueue always grows > and > never deletes entries. I can reproduce that (i.e. the > OutOfMemoryError), but > only on the command line, not inside Eclipse. It looks like whether > the class > works without OutOfMemory depends on some implementation detail of > the > garbage collection. > > Regards > Daniel > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]