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[jira] Issue Comment Edited: (COCOON-2109) Incorrent cleanup of expired continuations

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COCOON-2109?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#action_12519005 ] 

mcuervoe edited comment on COCOON-2109 at 8/10/07 5:24 AM:
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It is not that easy. The update of the lastAccessTime it is done by other classes that use the reference to the continuation and that do not know anything about this set of continuations. Therefore you can not expected to have the continuation removed and inserted back in the set every time it changes to manteain the order. 

So the only solution I see it will be to recreate the sorted set every time that you want to iterate over it. And this operation will be probably slower that just iterate over all the continuations.

      was (Author: mcuervoe):
    It is not that easy. The update of the lastAccessTime it is done by other classes that use the reference to the continuation and that do not know anything about this set of continuations. Therefore you can not expected to have the continuation removed and inserted back in the set every time it changes to manteain the order. 

So the only solution I see will be recreate the sorted set every time that you want to iterate over it. And this operation will be probably slower that just iterate over all the continuations.
  
> Incorrent cleanup of expired continuations
> ------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: COCOON-2109
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COCOON-2109
>             Project: Cocoon
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: - Flowscript
>    Affects Versions: 2.1.6, 2.1.7, 2.1.8, 2.1.9, 2.1.10, 2.1.11-dev (Current SVN)
>            Reporter: Miguel Cuervo
>         Attachments: ContinuationsManagerImpl.java.patch
>
>
> The class ContinuationsManagerImpl is in charge of cleaning up expired continuations. It does so in the method expireContinuations. In this method there is a loop using an iterator over a SortedSet of continuations (WebContinuation). The loop is expecting that the continuations are ordered from oldest to newest.  The loop stops in the first continuation that is not expired. The logic is correct since all the newer continuations could not be expired.
> However, the problem comes from the ordering of the continuations. To have the continuations ordered by lastAccessTime the program uses a TreeSet as a container of the continuations. The continuations implement the compareTo interface using the lastAccessTime and when a continuation is inserted in the container, it gets correctly ordered. But after the insertion, the continuation can change its lastAccessTime using the method WebContinuation.updateLastAccessTime() called from WebContinuation.getContinuation(). The ordering of the TreeSet is not updated with the change and when the program iterates over it, it does not get the continuations in the order expected.
> The result of this bug is that under hevy load many expired continuations may be around before the loop actually clean them up, eating memory resources and causing OutOfMemory.
> To fix it, a patch is provided that uses a HashSet for the continuations container and loops over all the continuations to check if they have expired.

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