[rules-users] PermGen OOM and shadow proxies

s erel erelsagi at gmail.com
Wed Oct 10 12:58:58 EDT 2007


Yes I've tried increasing it to 256mb. It didn't help. The memory continued
to grow at a rapid rate till it reached the 256 limit.

On 10/10/07, Andrew Thompson <andyjbs at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>  Have you tried just increasing the size of your PERM generation? Maybe it
> is not a leak but simply that you need just a little more than the JVM's
> default limit?
>
> --
> Andrew Thompson
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: s erel <erelsagi at gmail.com>
> To: Rules Users List <rules-users at lists.jboss.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 11:07:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [rules-users] PermGen OOM and shadow proxies
>
> I've tried it with trunk and the OOM error still happens.
>
> In our project working memories/facts are not shared between threads. One
> thread does not interfere with another thread rule evaluation.
>
> Do we need shadow proxies for such a scenario?
>
> The document says:
> *IMPORTANT: disabling shadow facts for a class inhibits the ability of the
> engine keep track of changes to that class attributes. It means, once
> asserted, a fact of that class MUST NOT change any of its attributes or the
> engine may start to present unpredictable behavior. It does not help to use
> update(). The only way to safely change an attribute of a fact whose shadow
> fact is disabled is to call modifyRetract() before changing the attribute,
> change the attribute and call modifyAssert()
>
> *What about when retracting in order to assert a new reference? Is it safe
> to use normal retract() ?
>
>
>
> On 10/8/07, Mark Proctor <mproctor at codehaus.org> wrote:
> >
> > s erel wrote:
> >
> > I understand that shadow facts are created once during building.
> > Still, the application crashes in less than a minute when shadow facts
> > are enabled and it runs for hours when they are disabled.
> >
> > I was assuming it to be related to a corrupted data structure that
> > leaks.
> >
> > Can you think of such a case?
> > Are there any limitations for shadow facts (besides them being final)?
> >
> > Can you try this with trunk and let us know if it still happens?
> > https://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/job/drools/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/trunk/target/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/8/07, Mark Proctor < mproctor at codehaus.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >  s erel wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I've posted before regarding this issue.
> > > We currently evaluating drools 4.01 for our project. We've noticed
> > > that the perm gen space grows at a rapid rate and that eventually results
> > > in a OOM. When shadow facts are disabled, the problem seems to go away
> > > (or at least not as noticeable as before).
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > > What is the effect of a shadowed object which itself contains complex
> > > objects that are also involved in a pattern (through inline eval)?
> > >
> > > when the system encounters a new Class, and shadow is enabled, it
> > > generates a proxy to that class - however this is a one time operation. The
> > > only way that shadow proxies would continue to be created would be if you
> > > where continually creating or loading new classes or redefinitions of the
> > > old classes.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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