[rules-users] queries in Drools 5.0

We are writing an app which has a large number of facts. This app also needs to make lots of queries against working memory. Our memory footprint seems to be expanding at an undesirable rate due to the number of queries made against working memory. It is increasing at a rate where after a couple of days the app will consume all the resources on the machine. This app is stateful and needs to stay up for a long duration. Rebooting it every couple of day to clean up working memory would not be acceptable. It seems to me that the queries are being added to working memory as facts, but the query is not retracted after its result is returned. Is that true? Is there something I need to do so query facts are removed after the results are returned to keep the size of working memory down? Has this behavior changed since Drools 4.0.7. I don't recall seeing this issue running against the older version of Drools. Thanks, Dan Daniel Quinn Fedex - Custom Critical Software Specialist I 234.310.4090(x2586) ________________________________ From: rules-users-bounces(a)lists.jboss.org [mailto:rules-users-bounces@lists.jboss.org] On Behalf Of David Sinclair Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 3:20 PM To: Rules Users List Subject: Re: [rules-users] Locating facts via slot values Here you go WolfGang rule shoot-3 when $h : Hunter( $target : target) Animal(this == $target) then $h.shoot( $a ); retract( $a ); end 2009/4/3 Wolfgang Laun <wolfgang.laun(a)gmail.com&gt; Given a working memory containing a large number of rather static facts which are from several subclasses (Ape, Bear, Crocodile,...) of some base class (Animal) and a single fact of class Hunter with a field target of type Animal, the shooting of an animal might be written with a rule like this: rule shoot-1 when ?h : Hunter( ?target : target ) ?a : Animal() eval(?target == ?a) then ?h.shoot( ?a ); retract( ?a ); end Avoiding eval (which is said to be inefficient), it could also be written as rule shoot-2 when ?a: Animal() ?h : Hunter( target == ?a ) then ?h.shoot( ?a ); retract( ?a ); end This, however, places the pattern with many instances up front, which is (AFAIK) not so good in a Rete implementation. Which one is to be preferred in Drools? Ideally, one might want to write rule shoot-3 when ?h : Hunter( ?target : target ) ?a == ?target : Animal() ### not valid DRL then ?h.shoot( ?a ); retract( ?a ); end This avoids eval, has the single instance fact up front, but it isn't available. -W _______________________________________________ rules-users mailing list rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users