Re: Modperl/Apache deficiencies... Memory usage.

[Matt Sergeant]

On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Leslie Mikesell wrote:

> Do you happen to know of anyone doing xml/xsl processing in
> servlets?  A programmer here has written some nice looking stuff
> but it appears that the JVM is never garbage-collecting and
> will just grow and get slower until someone restarts it.  I
> don't know enough java to tell if it is his code or the xslt
> classes that are causing it.

Perl's XML::DOM creates circular references which have to be manually
deleted with the XML::DOM::Node->dispose method. It's fairly likely that
Java implementations work in a similar fashion.

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