The root of the perm gen leak has now be solved, thanks to some heroic work by community
developer Davide Sottara.
This is just in time for the 5.6 release going out this week. You will not need to use the
kbase.dispose() work around.
Mark
On 6 Jan 2014, at 20:50, Mark Proctor <mproctor(a)codehaus.org> wrote:
The 5.6 approach should be considered a work around, not a fix.
Somewhere a ref is being held, that shouldn’t be - we just haven’t found it yet.
Mark
On 6 Jan 2014, at 19:17, Davide Sottara <dsotty(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I have run pmander's tests, and reported in a previous email.
> The leak in 5.x is due to the nature of the composite classloader, and
> dispose()
> forces the memory to be released. I don't remember if that fix was in
> 5.6.CR1
> (probably not), so you may have to try 5.6.0-SNAPSHOT or wait for the
> end of the week.
> 6.x does not suffer from the same problem, but has a different issue -
> no way
> to unload kie modules once they are cached - which Mario has been
> working on.
> In either case, pmander's test works fine in both 5.6.x and 6.x after
> these fixes
> Davide
>
> On 01/06/2014 07:56 PM, Mark Proctor wrote:
>> I’ve been told 5.6 will be released this week. This is because the JCR2GIT
migration tool, in 5.6 is needed for our 6.0 product.
>>
>> Davide's current kbase.dispose() method, on the concrete class, should just
be considered a work around for the problem. Unless this is fixed by someone in the
community, I don’t think any core developers will have time to address this. At least not
for 5.x; we’ll continue to look into it for 6.x.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>> On 6 Jan 2014, at 16:14, brachi <brachi.w(a)sapiens.com> wrote:
>>
>>> see previous messages, pmander attached a unit test
>>>
>>>
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