Hi Charles, the pull request mentions a class named Java7ClassValue - does this mean it's a Java 7 issue or is it reproducible on 8 and maybe even 9? Names can be misleading. ;-)
To clarify: by what means is the ClassValue removed in the JRuby implementation? I agree this should not happen. Best, Michael > Am 06.08.2015 um 20:26 schrieb Charles Oliver Nutter <head...@headius.com>: > > Pardon me if this has been discussed before, but we had a bug (with > fix) reported today that seems to indicate that the JVM is rooting > objects put into a ClassValue even if the ClassValue goes away. > > Here's the pull request: https://github.com/jruby/jruby/pull/3228 > > And here's one example of the root trace leading back to our JRuby > runtime. All the roots appear to be VM-level code: > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9213410/class-values-leak.png > > Is this expected? If we have to stuff a WeakReference into the > ClassValue it seriously diminishes its utility to us. > > - Charlie -- <http://www.oracle.com/> Dr. Michael Haupt | Principal Member of Technical Staff Phone: +49 331 200 7277 | Fax: +49 331 200 7561 Oracle Java Platform Group | LangTools Team | Nashorn Oracle Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG, Schiffbauergasse 14 | 14467 Potsdam, Germany <http://www.oracle.com/commitment> Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment
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