My theory is that the code related to Introspector and OGNL is holding
onto references to outdated classes.

On 6/21/05, Michael Musson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 6/17/05, Tomas Jucius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > But after a lot of resets jvm memory becomes full, and I get
> > "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError"
> 
> This issue has been raised in a previous thread. It was found that
> setting the property disable-caching to true would eventually lead to
> an out of memory exception and that setting the property to false
> would prevent the exception from occurring. However since you are
> calling the reset service you are creating the same situation through
> different means.
> 
> Here is Johan's original message below summarizing what he found:
> 
> When I looked at this in Jan 31 (see archives) the error I ran into
> was an OOME. When I looked at the actual stack-trace I could see that
> it was the permanent heap that was out of memory. This is significant
> since the permanent heap is used for storing classes and types. I have
> never seen a profiler that analyses the permanent heap in detail - it
> would be interesting to know if someone knows if such a tool exists.
> The permanent heap is most probably never garbage collected, this
> would amount to throwing away class definitions. This is usually not a
> problem since an ordinary application has a finite number of classes
> defined and when they are loaded that is it.
> Now, when in development mode I assume, and this is just a guess, that
> Tapestry is enhancing and creating _new_ classes every time a page is
> loaded. This will fill the permanent heap after a while and when that
> is full you'll get OOME.
> When Tapestry can cache the classes it creates the permanent heap will
> not fill up with new classes and everything should work as expected.
> So this will only be a problem when in development mode, I wouldn't
> even consider it a bug in Tapestry (this can happen with JSP compilers
> also), merely a fact of life as a developer :-)
> 
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