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Mark,

On 2/17/16 5:04 PM, Mark Thomas wrote:
> On 17/02/2016 11:11, Mark Thomas wrote:
>> On 16/02/2016 22:07, Ty wrote:
>>>> Exactly which versions were you using when you ran your
>>>> tests?
>>> 
>>> According to my notes:  7.0.59, which should've been the most
>>> recent version available at the time (about this time last
>>> year).
>>> 
>>> To clarify:  that was the version we did a heap dump analysis
>>> of, and noted the memory increase related to Manifest objects.
>>> The version used for the test procedure in this thread's
>>> original message -- last performed last week -- was 7.0.67 and
>>> we did not do a heap analysis of it (only noting that at a
>>> glance it resulted in approximately the same amount of heap 
>>> increase correlating with JAR scanning as we saw with last
>>> year's version).
>> 
>> Thanks for the version info.
>> 
>> I've started looking at this. The bulk of the memory is used by 
>> JarResourceSet. It is caching a JarFileEntry object for each
>> class in the JAR.
>> 
>> I wrote this code but I don't recall why those entries were
>> retained. I need to look back through svn to figure out what
>> problem it was solving and then see if I can find a better
>> solution.
> 
> Quick update.
> 
> There are two separate issues, both triggered by JAR scanning.
> 
> The JarResourceSet issue above accounts for ~50% of a 1GB heap. 
> There is also a WebappClassLoader issue that accounts for ~30% of
> the same heap.
> 
> The WebappClassLoader issue is the easier to fix. I have fixed this
> in trunk and am just waiting for the tests to confirm all is well.
> I plan to back-port this to 8.0.x for the next release.
> 
> The JarResourceSet is going to be trickier. The code is the way it
> is partly for performance, partly to avoid file locking on Windows.
> It is going to take a little longer to put together a fix for this
> one.

For Ty's purposes, simply avoid JAR scanning entirely should eliminate
the heap issues, right? Moving from Tomcat 6 means that JAR scanning
is not required for correct operation of their application.

- -chris
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