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Robert Olofsson commented on XALANJ-2195:
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Is there anything a mortal person can do to speed up the fix of this issue now
that it has celebrated it's fifth birthday?
> Memory leak in XMLReaderManager
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>
> Key: XALANJ-2195
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XALANJ-2195
> Project: XalanJ2
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Xalan
> Affects Versions: 2.7
> Reporter: Marko Strukelj
> Priority: Blocker
> Attachments: gc-roots.jpg, retained-object-sizes.jpg,
> xalan-j2-2.6.0-xmlmemoryleak-tm2l.patch
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> In class org.apache.xml.utils.XMLReaderManager
> getXMLReader() method creates a new XMLReader (i.e. SAXParser) and stores it
> into ThreadLocal.
> releaseXMLReader() does not remove (set to null) ThreadLocal thus creating a
> permanent leak.
> Unfortunately the size of the cached Reader is typically dependent upon the
> size of the XML document you process (depends on implementation but this is
> the case with xerces SAXParser). In heavy load server environments with
> thread pools of tens and hundreds of threads the server sustains a
> significant memory leak (hundreds of megabytes - depending on the XML
> document sizes and number of threads in a thread pools).
> A fix is trivial:
> Put the following line at the end of releaseXMLReader method:
> m_readers.set(null);
> I wonder, why is reader stored in ThreadLocal in the first place?
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