I was reading the jenkins mailing list and someone mentioned a memory leak in guava.

I saw that weld uses guava so I am sending you this to make you aware in case you are not.

I haven't looked at the weld-core code, so you may not be affected.

here is the bug and it was fixed in r09

http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/issues/detail?id=573&can=1&q=milestone%3DRelease09%20status%3DFixed&sort=id%20-owner&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Milestone%20Summary

Best regards
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