OutOfMemoryError

[Terence Lai]

Hi All,

I am getting a OutOfMemoryError when I deploy my EJB application. To debug the 
problem, I wrote the following test program:

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            Query query = getQuery();

            for (int i=0; i<1000; i++) {
                search(query);
                
                if ( i%50 == 0 ) {
                    System.out.println("Sleep...");
                    Thread.currentThread().sleep(5000);
                    System.out.println("Wake up!");
                }
            }            
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    private static void search(Query query) throws IOException {
        FSDirectory fsDir = null;
        IndexSearcher is = null;
        Hits hits = null;
        
        try {
            fsDir = FSDirectory.getDirectory("C:\\index, false);
            is = new IndexSearcher(fsDir);
            SortField sortField = new SortField("profile_modify_date",
                SortField.STRING, true);

            hits = is.search(query, new Sort(sortField));
        } finally {
            if (is != null) {
                try {
                    is.close();
                } catch (Exception ex) {
                }
            }
            
            if (fsDir != null) {
                try {
                    is.close();
                } catch (Exception ex) {
                }
            }
        }
        
    }

In the test program, I wrote a loop to keep calling the search method. Everytime it 
enters the search method, I would instantiate the IndexSearcher. Before I exit the 
method, I close the IndexSearcher and FSDirectory. I also made the Thread sleep for 5 
seconds in every 50 searches. Hopefully, this will give some time for the java to do 
the Garbage Collection. Unfortunately, when I observe the memory usage of my process, 
it keeps increasing until I got the java.lang.OutOfMemoryError.

Note that I invoke the IndexSearcher.search(Query query, Sort sort) to process the 
search. If I don't specify the Sort field(i.e. using IndexSearcher.search(query)), I 
don't have this problem, and the memory usage keeps at a very static level.

Does anyone experience a similar problem? Did I do something wrong in the test 
program. I throught by closing the IndexSearcher and the FSDirectory, the memory will 
be able to release during the Garbage Collection.

Thanks,
Terence




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