[jira] [Updated] (LUCENE-3841) CloseableThreadLocal does not work well with Tomcat thread pooling

["Michael McCandless (Updated) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3841?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Michael McCandless updated LUCENE-3841:
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    Fix Version/s: 4.0
                   3.6
    
> CloseableThreadLocal does not work well with Tomcat thread pooling
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>
>                 Key: LUCENE-3841
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3841
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: core/other
>    Affects Versions: 3.5
>         Environment: Lucene/Tika/Snowball running in a Tomcat web application
>            Reporter: Matthew Bellew
>            Assignee: Michael McCandless
>             Fix For: 3.6, 4.0
>
>
> We tracked down a large memory leak (effectively a leak anyway) caused
> by how Analyzer users CloseableThreadLocal.
> CloseableThreadLocal.hardRefs holds references to Thread objects as
> keys.  The problem is that it only frees these references in the set()
> method, and SnowballAnalyzer will only call set() when it is used by a
> NEW thread.
> The problem scenario is as follows:
> The server experiences a spike in usage (say by robots or whatever)
> and many threads are created and referenced by
> CloseableThreadLocal.hardRefs.  The server quiesces and lets many of
> these threads expire normally.  Now we have a smaller, but adequate
> thread pool.  So CloseableThreadLocal.set() may not be called by
> SnowBallAnalyzer (via Analyzer) for a _long_ time.  The purge code is
> never called, and these threads along with their thread local storage
> (lucene related or not) is never cleaned up.
> I think calling the purge code in both get() and set() would have
> avoided this problem, but is potentially expensive.  Perhaps using 
> WeakHashMap instead of HashMap may also have helped.  WeakHashMap 
> purges on get() and set().  So this might be an efficient way to
> clean up threads in get(), while set() might do the more expensive
> Map.keySet() iteration.
> Our current work around is to not share SnowBallAnalyzer instances
> among HTTP searcher threads.  We open and close one on every request.
> Thanks,
> Matt

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