[jbossts-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Reopened: (JBTM-444) Slow memory leak in BaseTransaction
Jonathan Halliday (JIRA)
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Tue Feb 10 08:42:44 EST 2009
[ https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBTM-444?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Jonathan Halliday reopened JBTM-444:
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Assignee: Jonathan Halliday (was: Mark Little)
reopening for backport to maintenance branches.
> Slow memory leak in BaseTransaction
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> Key: JBTM-444
> URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBTM-444
> Project: JBoss Transaction Manager
> Issue Type: Bug
> Security Level: Public(Everyone can see)
> Components: JTA Implementation
> Affects Versions: 4.2.3.SP5, 4.2.3.SP6, 4.2.3.SP7
> Environment: Windows XP and Solaris, Java 1.5.0_14, JBoss 4.2.2 (so with JBossTS 4.2.3_SP6, but the problem is still there in SP7)
> Reporter: Andrew McDowell
> Assignee: Jonathan Halliday
> Fix For: 4.2.3.SP8, 4.2.3.CP05, 4.6
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> Attachments: JBTM-444.patch, mat-screenshot-1.jpg, matscreenshot.png
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> We had JBossAS running for approximately 4 weeks under extremely heavy load, and reached an OutOfMemory condition. Heap Dump analysis showed that the class com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.transaction.arjunacore.BaseTransaction dominated 85% of the heap space.
> In the class com.arjuna.ats.internal.jta.transaction.arjunacore.BaseTransaction, there is a private Hashtable _timeouts, into which a thread id and a timeout value are placed when transactions are started. However, the entries in the hashtable are never removed, even if the thread dies. Given all the JBossAS invokers for EJBs create/destroy worker threads, it means that client transactions can leak approximately 600 bytes (the String, Integer and Hashtable$Entry).
> The _timeouts table in our heap dump had some 6 million entries and a retained heap size of over 1Gb.
> Our workaround to the problem is that we are actively monitoring heap size and performing rolling restarts when the heap space is too low.
> You may want to consider using a ThreadLocal to store the timeout instead of a Hashtable, which would accomplish the goal of storing the timeout value per thread, but would be collected if the Thread died, but I will leave implementation speculation to you unless I find the time to submit a patch.
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