On 20/09/18 17:25, Suvendu Sekhar Mondal wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> Recently I am investigating a Metaspace leak issue. I dumped Metaspace
> content over time using jcmd. While comparing them I can see that
> there are 15,000 classes which are taking 120MB in that area! For all
> of them InstCount(number of object instances of the Java class) is
> zero. That tells me there is *no object* for those 15K classes in
> heap. I can see that too in heap. No objects found for those classes.
>
> Then why are they still live in the Metaspace and not getting cleared
> by Full GC? Definitely they have some reference(s) from somewhere. All
> I can see that they were loaded by 'class loader 0x21005760a
> 'org/apache/catalina/loader/WebappClassLoader'. Is this another form
> of classloader leak or something else? Any idea?
Use a profiler, trace the GC roots and figure out why the references are
being retained.
Mark
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