[rules-users] Possible "memory leak" in 5.3 with update?

[Mark Proctor]

On 04/04/2012 02:24, thenim wrote:
> @Mark,
>
> Your code example is exactly what I was doing - however there does appear to
> be some reference held somewhere, which is causing frequent full GCs - which
> eventually causes the thing to grind to a halt. The moment I change this to
> the following:
>
> MyObject o = new MyObject(1);
> fh = wm.insert(o);
>
> o.update(2); // update the same object rather than create a new one, note,
> equals and hash will return different values now.
>
> wm.update(fh, o);
>
> This problem goes away. I will see if over the next few days if I can put a
> simple example together to demonstrate the issue.
Without a code example there is nothing we can do. In the engine it only 
ever references the FactHandle, not the object inside of the facthandle. 
So if you update that, it should be free for GC.

Mark
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