Am Dienstag, den 12.09.2006, 00:49 +0200 schrieb Stefano Bagnara:
> Noel J. Bergman wrote:
> > An increase in traffic would not result in a consistent ~2MB per day
> > decrease in available heap space after a GC.  By definition, memory that is
> > consumed and not released is a memory leak.
> 
> No, I don't agree with this definition of leak.
> Even Wikipedia have a better definition:
> 
> "In computer science, a memory leak is a particular kind of
> unintentional memory consumption by a computer program where the program
> fails to release memory when no longer needed"
> 
> The key here is *unintentional* and *no* *longer* *needed*.
> 
> If you can demostrate that the allocated memory is no longer needed and
> that failing to deallocate it caused an OOM error then you demostrated
> you have a leak.
> 
> Btw, I don't care of this formal discussions. I'm interested in
> resolving this bug. I think I did everything I could have done with the
> informations you provided, so I will wait for you.
> 
> I don't want to release james 2.3.0 final with an open bug about a
> memory leak. So I'm +1 to release 2.3.0RC3, but before 2.3.0 final the
> bug has to be closed or at least I want to know what exactly is leaking
> before deciding wether we can ignore it or not.
> 
> Stefano
> 

My too.. So let us vote for RC3 now and release it. Should i
rebuild,sign,upload releases ? Or nothing changed since noel did it ?

bye
Norman

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