Patrick, many thanks for replying.

In my case it wasn't something I was aware of -- the application (from a
vendor) implements Spring 2.0's AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean such that
it calls PersistenceProviderImpl.createEntityManagerFactory(String name,
String resource, Map m), which seems to use the finalizing broker by
default.

I assume that since I ended up with a memory leak, Spring 2.0's cleanup
practices are dubious, and the finalizing broker is necessary.

So am I correct in guessing that the non-finalizing broker should be the one
in the ConcurrentHashMap (with hard references), and the finalizing broker
should be in the weak reference set?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Linskey [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 4:58 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: FW: Memory leak
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there any particular reason why you need the finalizing broker? One
> (vastly preferable) option would be to use the non-finalizing broker, which,
> of course, means that you're promising to close your brokers at the
> appropriate lifecycle moments.
>
> Certainly, the bug deserves to be addressed, as the whole point of the
> finalizing mode is to be robust in an environment with dubious cleanup
> practices.
>
> -Patrick
>
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Russell Collins<
> [email protected]> wrote:
> > Is there a configuration setting or work around for this in the meantime?
> >
> >
> > Russell Collins
> > Sr. Software Engineer
> > McLane Advanced Technology
> >
> > "Do or do not, there is no try." - Yoda
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Minor [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 11:12 AM
> > To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: FW: Memory leak
> >
> > I've created http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENJPA-1193
> >
> > One thought I had was that the if statement might simply be missing a
> > ! -- since this is a concurrency improvement for non-finalizing
> > brokers, perhaps the non-finalizing brokers were supposed to be
> > switched to the ConcurrentHashMap, rather than the finalizing brokers.
> >
> > Is Patrick Linskey still involved in openjpa? I haven't seen his name
> > for awhile.
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Michael Dick [mailto:[email protected]]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 6:47 AM
> >> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> >> Subject: Re: FW: Memory leak
> >>
> >> Hi David,
> >>
> >> At the moment I don't have a ton of free time to dive into the change
> >> or the peformance bottleneck that it resolved. In the interest of
> >> providing some relief (trunk & 1.3.x) I'd be happy to make this
> >> change configurable (maybe something on openjpa.conf.Compatibility)
> >> so you can get the old behavior.
> >>
> >> I've cross posted to d...@openjpa to see if there are any objections.
> >>
> >> In any event would you mind opening a JIRA issue (I'd do it but then
> >> you have to subscribe to get notifications etc.).
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:37 PM, David Minor <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Looks like this code was checked in a year ago by Patrick Linskey
> >> > with
> >>
> >> > the comment "Improve concurrency by actively managing
> >> > AbstractBrokerFactory's broker set when using non-finalizing brokers.
> >> > Credit goes to Arunabh Hazarika for identifying the bottleneck and
> >> prototyping this solution."
> >> >
> >> > I'm not sure why _brokers was changed with regards to
> >> > FinalizingBrokerImpl though. BrokerImpl's free() method was
> >> > modified to call the factory to remove the it from _brokers.
> >> > FinalizingBrokerImpl calls free() from its finalizer, but the
> >> > finalizer will never be called if there is a reference in _brokers.
> >> >
> >> > Anyone have any ideas?
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:24 AM, David Minor <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Hi Mike,
> >> > >
> >> > > I've tracked the problem down to
> >> > > org.apache.openjpa.kernel.AbstractBrokerFactory. The heap dump
> >> > > lists
> >>
> >> > > the _brokers Set as containing all the references to
> >> > > FinalizingBrokerImpl,
> >> > and
> >> > > it appears the assignment of this set was changed to this:
> >> > >
> >> > >        if (FinalizingBrokerImpl.class.isAssignableFrom(
> >> > >            bv.getTemplateBrokerType(_conf))) {
> >> > >             return MapBackedSet.decorate(new ConcurrentHashMap(),
> >> > >                new Object() { });
> >> > >         } else {
> >> > >            return new ConcurrentReferenceHashSet(
> >> > >                 ConcurrentReferenceHashSet.WEAK);
> >> > >        }
> >> > >
> >> > > It used to be assigned to the weak reference hash set as in the
> >> > > else
> >>
> >> > > statement. Forcing the second assignment fixes the problem.
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > >
> >> > > > -----Original Message-----
> >> > > > From: Michael Dick [mailto:[email protected]]
> >> > > > Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 7:29 AM
> >> > > > To: [email protected]
> >> > > > Subject: Re: FW: Memory leak
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Hi David,
> >> > > >
> >> > > > There have been a few changes in PersistenceProviderImpl. One
> >> > > > was to make the non-finalizing BrokerImpl the default (must be
> >> > > > overridden in your
> >> > > > config) another that might be interesting was adding a pool of
> >> > > > EntityManagerFactories.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > From what I've seen the EMF pool is not used by default, but
> >> > > > it's possible that the AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean is
> >> > > > setting it (the property is named  EntityManagerFactoryPool in
> >> > > > case that helps). I took a quick pass at setting the pooling
> >> > > > property and the only way I saw it take effect was to pass it
> >> > > > in as a JVM arg (might be something in my eclipse env though -
> >> > > > and I'm on
> >> 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT ATM).
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Hope this gives you a starting point, if not keep replying and
> >> > > > we'll
> >> > try
> >> > > > to help
> >> > > >
> >> > > > -mike
> >> > > >
> >> > > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:00 PM, David Minor
> >> > > > <[email protected]>
> >> > > > wrote:
> >> > > >
> >> > > >> Hi Mike,
> >> > > >>
> >> > > >> Nothing else has changed. The application extends spring 2.0's
> >> > > >> AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean class (apparently so that the
> >> > > >> persistence.xml file can be named something different).
> >> > > >>
> >> > > >> I notice it is checking the return type of
> >> > > >> AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean's getPersistenceProvider()
> >> > > >> for an instance of openjpa's PersistenceProviderImpl, and
> >> > > >> doing something different depending on whether it finds it or
> >> > > >> not. Has anything changed with regards to this class?
> >> > > >>
> >> > > >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > > >> > From: Michael Dick [mailto:[email protected]]
> >> > > >> > Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 12:49 PM
> >> > > >> > To: [email protected]
> >> > > >> > Subject: Re: Memory leak
> >> > > >> >
> >> > > >> > Hi David,
> >> > > >> >
> >> > > >> > FinalizingBrokerImpl will close itself and free resources
> >> > > >> > when it's GC'ed.
> >> > > >> > It sounds like something else is holding on to a lot of
> >> > > >> > references to FBImpl (I'd guess something changed "upstream").
> >> > > >> >
> >> > > >> > One cause is if the application creates a large number of
> >> > > >> > EntityManagers and doesn't close them (or creates a large
> >> > > >> > number of EMFactories which don't get closed since closing
> >> > > >> > an EMF will close
> >> > > > its EMs).
> >> > > >> >
> >> > > >> > Did anything else change or did you just upgrade OpenJPA
> >> versions?
> >> > > >> >
> >> > > >> > -mike
> >> > > >> >
> >> > > >> > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:34 AM, David Minor
> >> > > >> > <[email protected]>
> >> > > >> > wrote:
> >> > > >> >
> >> > > >> >> Upgrading openjpa from 1.0.1 to 1.2.1 seems to introduce a
> >> > > >> >> memory leak
> >> > > >> >
> >> > > >> >> in our application -- leaving the server running for a few
> >> > > >> >> days results in OOM errors (there are quartz tasks making
> >> > > >> >> simple openjpa
> >> > > >
> >> > > >> >> selects during this time). A heap dump reveals
> >> > > >> >> org.apache.openjpa.kernel.FinalizingBrokerImpl as the
> >> > > >> >> dominant
> >>
> >> > > >> >> object,
> >> > > >> >
> >> > > >> >> according to Eclipse's memory analysis plugin.
> >> > > >> >>
> >> > > >> >> Does anyone have an idea of what might be causing this?
> >> > > >> >>
> >> > > >> >> --
> >> > > >> >> _____________
> >> > > >> >> David Minor
> >> > > >> >>
> >> > > >> >
> >> > > >> >
> >> > > >> >
> >> > > >> >
> >> > > >>
> >> > > >>
> >> > > >>
> >> > > >> --
> >> > > >> _____________
> >> > > >> David Minor
> >> > > >>
> >> > > >
> >> > > >
> >> > > >
> >> > > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > --
> >> > > _____________
> >> > > David Minor
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > _____________
> >> > David Minor
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > _____________
> > David Minor
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Patrick Linskey
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