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Veit Guna commented on GROOVY-7683:
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Any news on this?

I also encountered the mentioned problem, that MetaMethodIndex$Entry classes 
are growing quickly without being able to be GCed.
My scenario is during loadtests on the client side. I use restassured 2.9.0 
(uses groovy 2.4.6) to perform json parsing. I could track it down to this 
little snippet
to reproduce the behavior:

{code}
...
import com.jayway.restassured.path.json.JsonPath;
...
        public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
                for (int ci = 0; ci < 100000; ci++) {
                        JsonPath.from("{\"id\": \"" + 
UUID.randomUUID().toString() + "\"}").getUUID("id");
                        Thread.sleep(1);
                }
        }
{code}

Simply take a look using jvisualvm and you see the results.
I also tried the latest 2.4.x groovy version and latest 2.3.x with the same 
results.


> Memory leak when using Groovy as JSR-223 scripting language.
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: GROOVY-7683
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-7683
>             Project: Groovy
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: GroovyScriptEngine
>    Affects Versions: 2.4.5
>         Environment: OS: tested on Mac OS X El Capitan and Windows 10.
> JVM: tested on 1.8.0_60 and 1.8.0_65.
>            Reporter: Arkadiusz Gasinski
>              Labels: jsr-223
>         Attachments: 
> 0001-GROOVY-7683-replace-hard-reference-from-ClassInfo-to.patch
>
>
> We have a Java EE 7 web application in production that when handling single 
> HTTP request can load and execute up to several Groovy scripts using the 
> jsr-223 API. This application is deployed to GlassFish 4.1 server cluster 
> with 4 instances, each having 8 GB of RAM available (Xmx=8g). We have to 
> restart them every couple of days (3-4), because of leaking memory. After 
> analyzing a couple of heap dumps, our main suspect is Groovy with its 
> MetaMethodIndex$Entry class (the below table shows the top object from one of 
> the heap dumps).
> ||Class Name||Objects||Shallow Heap||Retained Heap||
> |MetaMethodIndex$Entry| 3 360 001 |  188 160 056 | >= 305 408 024
> To confirm our suspicions, I created simple Maven project with a single test 
> case. The project is available on 
> [GitHub|https://github.com/jigga/groovy-jsr223-leak]. The test case executes 
> 10 different scripts (minimal differences) obtained from a single template 
> 20000 times in 64 worker threads (the main thread is put to sleep for 10 
> seconds before starting worker threads, so that one can attach JVisualVM to 
> the test process). After all threads are done, System.gc() is called to 
> provoke full GC. Attaching to the process in which tests are run with 
> JVisualVM reveals that the memory is not reclaimed.
> To run the test in your local environment, simply clone the 
> [GitHub|https://github.com/jigga/groovy-jsr223-leak] project and run:
> {code}
> mvn test
> {code}
> The same test can be run with the *-Dlanguage=javascript* system option, 
> which switches ScriptEngine from Groovy to Nashorn and uses slightly modified 
> script template (only syntactical differences).
> {code}
> mvn -Dlanguage=javascript test
> {code}
> Running the test case using built-in Nashorn engine reveals no problems - all 
> allocated memory is reclaimed after full GC.
> I know that the test case is run in Java SE environment, but I guess that it 
> clearly reflects the issue. If it's not enough, I can create an arquillian 
> test case.
> This may be a possible duplicate of 
> [GROOVY-7109|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-7109].
> Any workarounds for this issue would be greatly appreciated.



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