On 27 Oct 2010, at 09:06, Andreas Truszkowski wrote:

> Hello together,

Hi Andreas,

> I have tried to profile my cdk taverna project with a profiling tool but 
> I failed. Hopefully you can give me a little hint of how to solve this 
> nasty memory leaks.

I assume you are getting an OutOfMemoryError; can you post the stack trace you 
get?

> But first let me explain how my workers work.
> 
> Because I am working with CDK objects they are serialized as a byte 
> array so that they can be passed via the output port to another worker.
> In the receiving workers the bytes are deserialized to CDK objects. Here 
> is a code snippet how the serialization and the port configuration is done:
> 
> Configuring the output port:
>     T2Reference containerRef = referenceService.register(dataList, 1, 
> true, context);
>      outputs.put(this.RESULT_PORTS[0], containerRef);
> the datalist is a list containing byte arrays (the serialized objects, 
> List<byte[]> dataList)
> 
> Getting the data from the input port:
>      List<byte[]> dataList = (List<byte[]>) 
> referenceService.renderIdentifier(inputs.get(this.INPUT_PORTS[0]), 
> byte[].class, context);
>  the dataList is in the end deserialized to the CDK objects.
> 
> Additionally I am using an looped workflow which is executed several 
> hundred times to iterate over a big sdfile library.
> 
> Is there a need to deregister the registered objects 
> (referenceService.register(dataList, 1, true, context)) or does Taverna 
> itself discard them if they are not needed anymore?
> Any hint what is running wrong is desired.

Taverna should discard any references that it no longer requires. A few 
questions to try and narrow down the problem:

Which version of Taverna are you using?
Which operating system are you using?
How are you running Taverna - from the command line, in Eclipse or some other 
testing framework?
How are you storing the data - in memory or in a database?

David.

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David Withers
School of Computer Science, University of Manchester,
Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.
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