Memory leak in CloseableHttpAsyncClient?

[Rob Griffin]

We are using HTTPAsynchClient to send data to our web site from a Java client. 

We call CloseableHttpAsyncClient.execute() to execute HTTP PUTs at the rate of 
several hundred per minute. Sometimes our web site slows down and does not 
respond quickly enough and when this occurs the requests back up. We have code 
that detects this and cancels the Future returned from the execute method when 
the request has waited too long. If this happens too often the application 
crashes with an out of memory error. 

Analysis of a dump showed that there were more 108,000 instances of 
org.apache.http.nio.pool.LeaseRequest along with a similar number of instances 
of other HTTP Client classes. Inspecting one of these objects showed that its 
future variable is not cancelled but that by tracing though the callback 
variables there is a cancelled Future further up the chain. That cancelled 
Future object is one returned by execute because its callback is one of our 
classes. To me it appears that the library is unaware that cancel has been 
called on the Future returned by execute() and so keeps a reference to it.    

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Regards,

Rob Griffin
Software Analyst, Spotlight on SQL Server 
Dell Software | R & D 


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