[jira] Commented: (XALANJ-2195) Memory leak in XMLReaderManager

["Michel Loiseleur (JIRA)" <xa...@xml.apache.org>]

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Michel Loiseleur commented on XALANJ-2195:
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Hi,

   We have made a fix which works well for this memory leak (more than 6 months without any memory leak). Feel free to apply it and include it in 2.7.0 code base.

Regards,


> Memory leak in XMLReaderManager
> -------------------------------
>
>                 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
>
>
> 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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