Which tasks are you using in your build? The Eclipse ant integration makes an attempt to isolate itself from memory leaks by invoking Ant in a new classloader every time.
Unfortunately, classloaders aren't the magic bullet for isolating Eclipse from any memory leaks in an Ant task. In fact, since the Eclipse integration invokes a new classloader every time, the memory leak can be even greater than you would expect since all the classes loaded during the invocation will stick around. Many Ant tasks appear not to causes leaks when used in Eclipse integration. The tasks which leaked for me were the tasks which executed external processes. The process destroyer patch fixing those problems for me. I have many custom tasks which invoke external processes and I can run them without leaking. I have verified this with a profiler. The big tasks which appear to leak in Eclipse once the process destroyer leak is fixed are the xdoclet tasks. I don't know why they are leaking, but if they are leaking even with classloader isolation, they must be somehow storing references in the parent classloader. -----Original Message----- From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 11:19 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: Memory leaks with ant 1.5.x! Searching for a fix I see. I also see that the process destroyer leak is nominally fixed in 1.6 -have you tested this? You should know that some leakage is out of our hands -javac is a case in point; it creates lots of static content that never gets cleaned up, pre java1.4. But we need to do as much as we can to make sure that the ant core does not leak and can scale up to big builds or extended use. Any leakage in things like <ant> and <taskdef> over existing task definitions would things I am very interested in finding and killing. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darin Swanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 07:07 Subject: RE: Memory leaks with ant 1.5.x! Searching for a fix For the details of the discussion and findings you can look at: http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=24448 Thanks Darins [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas SMETS) 03/12/03 05:08 PM Please respond to "Ant Users List" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Ant Users List") cc: Subject: RE: Memory leaks with ant 1.5.x! Searching for a fix Can you indicate what the problem is and indicate what you really mean with a memory leak ? I use eclipse 2.0.1 build 200208291828 with a ANT 1.5.1 (external installation not an integrated version thru the plug-in) and I never noticed anything similar to that ! Thomas, J�rgen Schlierf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, >I'm using ant with eclipse 2.1 RC1. The memory leaks caused problems after >20-30 builds. Does anyone know how to fix ant 1.5.1/2? > >Thanks >J�rgen > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Thomas SMETS rue J. Wytsmanstraat 62 1050 Brussels __________________________________________________________________ Try AOL and get 1045 hours FREE for 45 days! http://free.aol.com/tryaolfree/index.adp?375380 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 for FREE! Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promos=380455 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
