Static reference to a Throwable causing ClassLoader leak

[Konstantin Kolinko <kn...@gmail.com>]

Hi!

I was reviewing the reproduction recipe for java bug 6916498 [1]
and came to a conclusion that it is triggered by the following line in one
of the classes (see my comment in [1] for details):

public static final RuntimeException abort = new RuntimeException();

[1] "Class loader leak goes unreported via JVMTI"
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6916498

The leak happens when the stacktrace includes classes loaded by webapp's
classloader. It is understandable. The problem is that those references are
not visible in a profiler, e.g. in Eclipse MAT.

I do not know how to obtain a list of all Exceptions that are present
in memory, but
the following recipe is good for most cases. In Eclipse MAT:

1. Open a heap dump
2. Click "Open Query Browser" button on the toolbar. A menu appears.
3. Select "List objects" -> "with incoming references"
4. Type the following expression as the class name:  .*Exception

That will list all classes whose name ends with "Exception".


Additional notes:
1) The offending class in [1] is AbstractDOMParser, copied from Apache
Xerces. The current code of Xerces is different [2]. The current code
looks better, but I have not tested whether that fixes the leak or
not.

[2] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xerces/java/trunk/src/org/apache/xerces/parsers/AbstractDOMParser.java?annotate=782187#l162

2) I found a scenario when such a leak is caused by a field in
org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspDocumentParser. I will add an issue into
Bugzilla.


Best regards,
Konstantin Kolinko

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Re: Static reference to a Throwable causing ClassLoader leak

[Konstantin Kolinko <kn...@gmail.com>]

2010/12/12 Konstantin Kolinko <kn...@gmail.com>:
> 2) I found a scenario when such a leak is caused by a field in
> org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspDocumentParser. I will add an issue into
> Bugzilla.

https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50460

Best regards,
Konstantin Kolinko

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