Christian K?hrt wrote: > I created a simple document with docbook included in the application. > the document included a lot of pictures and after reopening the document > 4 times I got a out of memory exception. > > the problem is every time when the document is closed the memory isnt > freed.
That's right and that's expected. After all documents are closed, most commands still keep a hidden reference to the last active document. But this does not explain why reopening the same document 4 times causes an out of memory exception. > is there a workaraund to avoid this memory leak? ... > i made some scans with jprobe to local the and there i saw that every > time after a document was closed and the garbage collector ran that 20mb > stucking still in the VM. also there are big byte arrays (i guess this > are the pictures) hanging around unfreed by the garbage collector. I need to know which version of Java you use and also, I would like to download your test document with all its images. You can directly (mailto:hussein at pixware.fr) send me the URL of a zip, tar.gz or tar.bz2 archive.
