RE: Memory leak in Tomcat 5.5.16

2010-05-04 Thread KT2010
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RE: Memory leak in Tomcat 5.5.16

2008-03-31 Thread Tom Price
Hi all, No more help required - I traced back all the references to the Request objects and it did turn out to be a bug in my application code. One of my tracing classes (written a long time ago, before we used Tomcat) was caching all created Thread objects. So when Tomcat decided to allocate

RE: Memory leak in Tomcat 5.5.16

2008-03-29 Thread Tom Price
Hi, I have now managed to do some analysis of the classes that are referencing the leaked objects, can anyone help me interpret these results? I got jmap/jhat working by upgrading to JRE 1.6.0_05, and took a heap dump at a time after a period of stress when all SOAP/XML connections had been

Re: Memory leak in Tomcat 5.5.16

2008-03-28 Thread Mark Thomas
Tom Price I'm trying to find a tool that will show me which objects are holding onto references to these Tomcat objects, but haven't had much success so far - any suggestions gratefully received. Not free, but I use YourKit and get on very well with it. Mark

RE: Memory leak in Tomcat 5.5.16

2008-03-28 Thread hai_vu
To Tomcat Users List users@tomcat.apache.org cc Subject RE: Memory leak in Tomcat 5.5.16 Christopher, Christopher Schultz wrote: Have you been able to compare the numbers of those objects after, say, 100 requests with the same object counts after, say, 1 requests? It /is/ possible

Memory leak in Tomcat 5.5.16

2008-03-27 Thread Tom Price
Hi, I have a Java application that exposes a web services (SOAP/XML) interface using Apache Tomcat and Axis2 (see detailed background below). When this interface is heavily utilized, the application gradually leaks old space memory until it runs out. I have analyzed the heap usage on a system

Re: Memory leak in Tomcat 5.5.16

2008-03-27 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom, Tom Price wrote: | I have analyzed the heap usage on a | system where this memory leak has occurred, and I see that the following | classes take up most of the memory: [snip] | Does anyone know what could trigger the above classes to be

Re: Memory leak in Tomcat 5.5.16

2008-03-27 Thread Filip Hanik - Dev Lists
try to disable the cache in conf/catalina.properties, at the bottom there is a setting you can set to false tomcat.util.buf.StringCache.byte.enabled=true if the problem still exists, use jmap to dump the heap, and analyse the actual dependencies for mem usage Filip Tom Price wrote: Hi, I

RE: Memory leak in Tomcat 5.5.16

2008-03-27 Thread Tom Price
Christopher, Christopher Schultz wrote: Have you been able to compare the numbers of those objects after, say, 100 requests with the same object counts after, say, 1 requests? It /is/ possible that Tomcat is leaking memory per connection, but very unlikely given that thousands of servers