[jira] [Issue Comment Edited] (GERONIMO-5800) logged-in Subjects are cleaned up after web requests complete

["David Frahm (Issue Comment Edited) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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David Frahm edited comment on GERONIMO-5800 at 1/3/12 2:52 PM:
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I understand and respect the fact that this is open source and free software, so this is NOT a complaint.  I'm just trying to figure a strategy moving forward with our apps on this platform.

Any ideas on if/when this might be fixed?  This seems like the kind of issue that would be a very big deal to many users, but maybe its just me?

My linux/geronimo servers run for about a week and then need to be restarted.  I've got a cron job that does it, but that sometimes causes other issues and is way more downtime than we're used to requiring.  Plus, it just seems so wrong ;-)

On another note, we are working on some official IBM WASCE support.  Would that help to get this resolved/patched or are they just going to diagnose and tell me what I already know?

                
      was (Author: dfrahm@teamhuber.com):
    Any ideas on if/when this might be fixed?  This seems like something that would be a very big deal, but maybe its just me?

My linux/geronimo servers run for about a week and then need to be restarted.  I've got a cron job that does it, but that is way more downtime than we're used to requiring.  Plus, it just seems so wrong ;-)

I understand and respect the fact that this is open source and free software, so this is NOT a complaint.  I'm just trying to figure what our strategy moving forward.

On another note, we are working on some official IBM WASCE support.  Would that help to get this resolved or are they just going to diagnose and tell me what I already know?

                  
> logged-in Subjects are cleaned up after web requests complete
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: GERONIMO-5800
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-5800
>             Project: Geronimo
>          Issue Type: Bug
>      Security Level: public(Regular issues) 
>          Components: Jetty, Tomcat
>    Affects Versions: 2.2.1, 3.0
>            Reporter: David Jencks
>            Assignee: David Jencks
>
> We generally don't clean up the logged in Subject when a web request returns.  This results in a memory leak in ContextManager.subjectContexts. As well as geronimo changes I think this will need changes in the Jetty Authenticators we use.  I think we control all the affected tomcat code.  Ejb requests appear to already clean this up on exit.
> As an application-level workaround your app can call:
> Subject subject = ContextManager.getCurrentCaller();
> ContextManager.unregisterSubject(subject);
> immediately before control returns to the client.  (I haven't tested this to make sure it doesn't break something else)
> Thanks to Morten Svanaes and David Frahm for reporting this problem on the user list.  There may be a similar problem in 2.1.x but the code and solution will be somewhat different.

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