[jira] Assigned: (GERONIMO-3838) memory (probably related to sessions) leak

["Donald Woods (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-3838?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Donald Woods reassigned GERONIMO-3838:
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    Assignee: Donald Woods

> memory (probably related to sessions) leak
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>                 Key: GERONIMO-3838
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-3838
>             Project: Geronimo
>          Issue Type: Bug
>      Security Level: public(Regular issues) 
>          Components: Memory Leaks, Tomcat
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.2, 2.1.1
>         Environment: tested with JDK 1.5 running on Windows XP and FreeBSD6.2
>            Reporter: Radim Kolar
>            Assignee: Donald Woods
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: 2.1.4, 2.2
>
>         Attachments: Geronimo-3838-11-16.patch
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> There is memory leak and it can be repeated very easily, so it should be very easy to catch
> Install Geronimo and then run some kind of benchmarking software against its admin UI login page, for example
> program ab from Apache HTTP. This is realistic attack scenario, because lot of denial of service attacks are doing this (requesting one page many times).
> Watching memory used graph in admin console shows free memory slowly decreasing. After all available memory is exhausted, application server stops serving new requests and never restores ifself back to working state.
> I think that it is caused by allocating sessions without limiting total number of sessions to keep in memory and possibly to swap sessions out to file. There needs to be user-configurable setting for preventing this, it would be nice to add such setting to Admin console.
> Its very important to get this bug fixed.

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