NetworkVariableDataSource.Bindings[VariableName].GetValue() leak memory

Dear Sir,
We are using Measurement Studio 8.5 for Visual Studio 2005. Our application reads 105 Netwrok Variables in every seconds. It does the the work done through NetworkVariableDataSource.Bindings[VariableName].GetValue(). So far we have tested and determined that the GetValue() methods leaks some memory and every seconds the memory consumption by the application goes up. How can we solve the problem? We are using c# lannguage.
Best regards,
Mamunur Rashid,
TechnoVista Limited

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NetworkVariableDataSource.Bindings[VariableName].GetValue() leaks memory

Dear Sir,
We are using Measurement
Studio 8.5 for Visual Studio 2005. Our application reads 105 Netwrok
Variables in every seconds. It does the work done through
NetworkVariableDataSource.Bindings[VariableName].GetValue(). So far we
have tested and determined that the GetValue() methods leaks some
memory and every seconds the memory consumption by the application goes
up. How can we solve this problem? We are using c# lannguage.We need argent solution.
Best regards,
Mamunur Rashid,
TechnoVista Limited

Dear Eric B.,
Following are some code segements
Some
aspx code:
<td>
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanelDO_KV601A_KV601B" runat="server" UpdateMode="Conditional">
<ContentTemplate>
<uc3:NIButton ID="DO_KV601A_KV601B" runat="server" VariableName="DO_KV601A-KV601B"
Caption="KV601A-B"></uc3:NIButton>
</ContentTemplate>
<Triggers>
<asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="Timer1" EventName="Tick"></asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger>
</Triggers>
</asp:UpdatePanel>
</td>
<td>
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanelAO_FC601" runat="server" UpdateMode="Conditional">
<ContentTemplate>
<uc2:NIText ID="AO_FC601" ToolTip="FC601" runat="server" VariableName="FC601"></uc2:NIText>
</ContentTemplate>
<%--<triggers>
<asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="Timer1" EventName="Tick"></asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger>
</triggers>--%>
</asp:UpdatePanel>
</td>
<td>
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel51" runat="server" UpdateMode="conditional">
<Triggers>
<asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="Timer1" EventName="Tick" />
</Triggers>
<ContentTemplate>
<uc1:NIReadOnlyText ID="AI_FT601" VariableName="FT601" ToolTip="FT601" runat="server"
Enabled="false"></uc1:NIReadOnlyText>
slpm
</ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel>
</td>
Some
code of Timer1_Tick of aspx.cs
protected void Timer1_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
refreshCustomControls(Page.Controls[0]);
protected void refreshCustomControls(Control control)
if (control is NINetworkVariableTextBox)
if (!txtActiveControlID.Text.Contains(control.ID))
// get the update panel that this user control lives in
// Control updatePnl = Page.FindControl(control.Parent.Parent.ID);
Control updatePnl = control.Parent.Parent;
NINetworkVariableTextBox tb = (NINetworkVariableTextBox)control;
string origValue = tb.Text;
// read the current data from the shared variable
tb.readData();
// tell this update panel to update
((UpdatePanel)updatePnl).Update(); //It is needed to remove yellow back color and update data and here no asychonous postback is used
else if (control is NINetworkVariableReadOnlyTextBox)
if (!txtActiveControlID.Text.Contains(control.ID))
FormattingValueOfReadOnlyText(control);
else if (control is NINetworkVariableButton)
if (!txtActiveControlID.Text.Contains(control.ID))
((NINetworkVariableButton)control).readData();
/* these controls are in asychonous update with timer so dont need to update panel update()*/
else if (control is NINetworkVariableRadioButton)
//if (control.ID != txtActiveControlID.Text)
if (!txtActiveControlID.Text.Contains(control.ID))
((NINetworkVariableRadioButton)control).readData();
else if (control.ID == "controlgraph")
return;
else
foreach (Control child in control.Controls)
refreshCustomControls(child);

Imapd service "Leak Memory"

I already have Java Communications Suite 6 Working , but, I have a Leak Memory problems with imapd process.
I have the server with 30 imapd process, 30 mshttpd process, and 30 pop process running to balance the load of the users.
All work fine(the CPU is 100% idle, the RAM is 80% available=6GB) when I access via browser(Chrome,Firefox), too when I access it with the traditional clients IMAP (Outlook, ThunderBird,etc).
The problem is that if one user want to copy(not just view) locally all your emails to your laptops/pc, the imapd process eat more than 3GB(instead of 80MB) of RAM and the system is getting slower.
If the user cancel this process(copy via IMAP all your emails) the process dont freedom doesn't release the memory and the system getting slower.
Actually my solution is:
# kill -9 <PID_imapd>
Some times when I kill the process the problem going to other imapd process, so in this case the solution is:
/opt/sun/comms/messaging/sbin/stop-msg
/opt/sun/comms/messaging/sbin/start-msg
I think that this problem is a bug but I dont know what is the patch.
May you help me? Any idea?
My system is:
A X2100 with one socket AMD Opteron 2600Mhz, 8GB RAM, 2 x disks 750GB in mirror with Solaris Volume Manager, Soalris 10 HW 10/08.
Thanks.
Jaime

Jorth, maybe we are not well explained,
the normal operation of imapd process(one process) need no more that 200MB, when a user is linked to it.
Check my example:
================================================================================================================
PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP
874 root 610M 421M sleep 59 0 0:14:51 0.1% java/160
818 webservd 413M 285M sleep 59 0 0:16:43 0.3% webservd/95
607 root 326M 45M sleep 59 0 0:07:01 0.1% webservd/58
16719 mailsrv 283M 50M sleep 59 0 0:00:06 0.0% imapd/5
798 root 237M 37M sleep 59 0 0:04:04 0.1% ns-slapd/48
*16673 mailsrv 220M 97M sleep 59 0 0:00:06 0.0% imapd/6*
*16677 mailsrv 210M 42M sleep 59 0 0:00:05 0.0% imapd/5*
*16696 mailsrv 205M 36M sleep 59 0 0:00:04 0.0% imapd/5*
*16695 mailsrv 200M 38M sleep 59 0 0:00:04 0.0% imapd/6*
*16685 mailsrv 197M 38M sleep 59 0 0:00:08 0.0% imapd/5*
*16682 mailsrv 195M 40M sleep 59 0 0:00:04 0.0% imapd/5*
*16681 mailsrv 193M 46M sleep 59 0 0:00:04 0.0% imapd/5*
*16690 mailsrv 187M 52M sleep 59 0 0:00:03 0.1% imapd/6*
*16687 mailsrv 187M 40M sleep 59 0 0:00:05 0.0% imapd/5*
*902 icsuser 185M 24M sleep 59 0 0:00:05 0.0% cshttpd/2*
NPROC USERNAME SWAP RSS MEMORY TIME CPU
78 mailsrv 2439M 2329M 28% 0:11:53 0.5%
14 icsuser 1064M 233M 2.8% 0:06:55 0.0%
136 root 965M 727M 8.9% 2:15:20 50%
1 webservd 264M 326M 4.0% 0:16:43 0.3%
1 noaccess 90M 100M 1.2% 0:01:13 0.0%
Total: 237 processes, 1042 lwps, load averages: 1.91, 1.90, 1.89
================================================================================================================
When we run an aplication like OutLook to copy locally to the laptopn all the mail via IMAP, "ONE imapd process" eat more memory that need it and never released.
Example:
================================================================================================================
PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP
*16673 mailsrv 2856M 2534M sleep 59 0 0:00:06 45% imapd/6* <---------------this process eat memory and slow the system(CPU/RAM)
874 root 610M 421M sleep 59 0 0:14:51 0.1% java/160
818 webservd 413M 285M sleep 59 0 0:16:43 0.3% webservd/95
607 root 326M 45M sleep 59 0 0:07:01 0.1% webservd/58
16719 mailsrv 283M 50M sleep 59 0 0:00:06 0.0% imapd/5
798 root 237M 37M sleep 59 0 0:04:04 0.1% ns-slapd/48
*16677 mailsrv 210M 42M sleep 59 0 0:00:05 0.0% imapd/5*
*16696 mailsrv 205M 36M sleep 59 0 0:00:04 0.0% imapd/5*
*16695 mailsrv 200M 38M sleep 59 0 0:00:04 0.0% imapd/6*
*16685 mailsrv 197M 38M sleep 59 0 0:00:08 0.0% imapd/5*
*16682 mailsrv 195M 40M sleep 59 0 0:00:04 0.0% imapd/5*
*16681 mailsrv 193M 46M sleep 59 0 0:00:04 0.0% imapd/5*
*16690 mailsrv 187M 52M sleep 59 0 0:00:03 0.1% imapd/6*
*16687 mailsrv 187M 40M sleep 59 0 0:00:05 0.0% imapd/5*
*902 icsuser 185M 24M sleep 59 0 0:00:05 0.0% cshttpd/2*
NPROC USERNAME SWAP RSS MEMORY TIME CPU
78 mailsrv 2439M 2329M 80% 0:00:5 0.5%
78 mailsrv 2439M 2329M 10% 0:11:53 0.5%
14 icsuser 1064M 233M 2.8% 0:06:55 0.0%
136 root 965M 727M 8.9% 2:15:20 50%
1 webservd 264M 326M 4.0% 0:16:43 0.3%
Total: 237 processes, 1042 lwps, load averages: 1.91, 1.90, 1.89
===================================================================================================
The rest of the imapd process(29) in this moment just load 40-50MB(when those are free).
If we kill the process 16673 the user connect to the next imapd process and the problem persist whit the same patology: eat memory and CPU, and slow the system.
So, we think that is not normal and maybe we need patch the system to solve the problem.
We will to test the 64Bit version in this moment and we will post the results.
Thank
Jaime

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I suspect that this leak caused by xerces DomParser.
i reached to this conculsion after using in Jprobe as a memory debuger.
Does any one has a similar problem?
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code:
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Hey, which Version of Xerces do you use?

Why does Firefox 4 (4.0.1 specifically) leak memory?

'''Answer:''' I figured it out.
History lesson first. Ever since the 4.0.1 update, Firefox 4 has been crashing A LOT. It's gotten so bad that FF4.0.1 will eat memory with no end in sight and eventually Windows (Win 7 64-bit) forcefully close the program due to an out of memory error.
I have 8 GB of RAM installed. And, it would crash once it exceeds 1.5 GB of RAM used by Firefox 4. I've seen Firefox 4 go up to 1.85 GB of RAM in Task Manager. This is with 20 tabs open.
With the add-on Leak-Monitor, I've narrowed down the issue. Having only Leak-Monitor as the extension installed, all pop-ups point to how '''poorly Firefox 4 handles Javascript'''!
MSNBC Leak Monitor issue:
[http://www.octoberasian.com/tech/text/FF4-Leak-Monitor_MSNBC.txt Leak Monitor log from MSNBC.com]
I've gotten more pop-ups from even support.mozilla.com because of the Javascript on this website.
Firefox 4.0.1 is leaking memory from every Javascript on every website I load. It's leaking memory as we speak with only this page loaded (one tab).
FIX IT! Firefox 4 is poorly handling Javascript, especially when multiple tabs are opened.

octoberasian: I, too, am experiencing this phenomenon. I shut my system down, pulled the EIC cable, held down the power button - then replugged and rebooted. I closed down every unneeded application that I have set to auto-start. Finally, I opened a single Firefox 4.0.1 window and let it sit. It began with consuming 43 Mb of memory. By afternoon - about 5 hours later - it was up to 203 Mb. There is definitely something very wrong with this version. It does the same on all the machines we have, sans our server. We don't use the server for anything but being a server & it has some version of Firefox 3 on it anyway. No Java Scripts were running, nor were any Adobe ARM or any plugins. I noticed when plugins run - the memory leakage goes into overdrive. Hey, I'm just sayin'...

Skype 6.4 continues to leak memory at an astonishing rate? Hard crashes ALL my Macs

Last version of Skype 6.3 leaked memory like a river full of rapids. And once it gobbled up 1.5gigs or so of memory, it HARD crashed my iMac requiring a hard reboot. It only takes about 30 minutes for skype to do this. My iMac (2012 Core i7 3.4ghz 32 gigs RAM) is at Mac OSX 10.7.5 and it is repeatable every time. I have to set timers to remind me to restart Skype every 30 minutes.
We thought 6.4 would fix the issue but no luck doing exact same thing. My colleague is across the country on an iMac with 10.7.5 same issues. Repeatable on my Macbook Pro running 10.8. If he let's it run, he gets the black screen of death and have to hard restart. Just like me.
This issue has been around for several weeks and is making skype unusuable for us and we rely on it heavily. Note we are PAYING customers. to Skype.
This ONLY happens if we use the video feature. Submitted to Skype, wondering if anyone else having issue?

Last version of Skype 6.3 leaked memory like a river full of rapids. And once it gobbled up 1.5gigs or so of memory, it HARD crashed my iMac requiring a hard reboot. It only takes about 30 minutes for skype to do this. My iMac (2012 Core i7 3.4ghz 32 gigs RAM) is at Mac OSX 10.7.5 and it is repeatable every time. I have to set timers to remind me to restart Skype every 30 minutes.
We thought 6.4 would fix the issue but no luck doing exact same thing. My colleague is across the country on an iMac with 10.7.5 same issues. Repeatable on my Macbook Pro running 10.8. If he let's it run, he gets the black screen of death and have to hard restart. Just like me.
This issue has been around for several weeks and is making skype unusuable for us and we rely on it heavily. Note we are PAYING customers. to Skype.
This ONLY happens if we use the video feature. Submitted to Skype, wondering if anyone else having issue?

DS 5.1sp2 SLAPI plugins leak memory

I am running DS 5.1sp2, on Solaris 9/SPARC, and have been encountering problems with the ns-slapd process leaking memory when using SLAPI plugins.
We have written our own bind pre-operation plugin function which, when enabled, causes ns-slapd to leak memory at a pretty rapid rate. I have a simple test where I perform a simple ldapsearch in an endless loop. The ns-slapd process starts off with a VSS of ~617MB (we have a fair amount of cache enabled) ; after a few minutes of my test, the VSS grows by several MB. With the plugin disabled, I can run the same test for hours with no growth in the VSS of ns-slapd.
I have also performed this test with my plugin disabled, and the "testbind" plugin function (the one provided in <server root></server>/plugins/slapd/slapi/examples/testbind.c) enabled. I see even more rapid memory leakage than with my plugin.
Are there known issues with SLAPI memory management? Is there anything I can do other than restarting ns-slapd on a regular basis (in production, this memory leak causes VSS growth of several hundred MB in the course of a few days).

I think if you want to modify the result before it is returned, your plugin needs to be invoked post-op as well. Your plugin can be both at the same time, just make sure your init function knows what to do when called a second time.
Moreover, without looking at the stack trace, it is hard to make any progress. Do you still have the core file? Can you paste the pstack and pflags output ?
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# pstack <corefile>
# pflags corefile
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GetOracleDecimal seems to leak memory?

Hello, I am using the C# statement below to retrieve a decimal value from an OracleDataReader, adjust the precision, then assign it to a .NET decimal type:
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Over time, the service that hosts this method leaks memory. After some investigation, I found that "Oracle.DataAccess.Types.OpoDecCtx" types were collecting in the finalize queue. Any ideas on how to resolve this? I can't explicitly Dispose() an OracleDecimal...
I'm using ODP.NET version 2.102.2.20.
Thanks

Thanks for the reply. I am using .NET 2.0 SP2. I upgraded the ODP.NET client to 2.111.7.20 but am still seeing leakage of the OracleDecimal structs.
Here's a snippet of output from WinDbg:
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Statistics:
MT Count TotalSize Class Name
00fb8cec 32816 656320 Oracle.DataAccess.Types.OpoDecCtx
With each pass of the service the Count and TotalSize grow in increments equal to the number of rows I'm querying...
Just for laughs I changed the GetOracleDecimal statement to GetDecimal and the memory issue went away (because I'm no longer creating OracleDecimals). But I need to use the higher precision type to prevent overflows..
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Does ReportDocument leak memory?

Using CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument XI R2. w3wp.exe memory use raises while a report is generated (which is expected), yet it does not seem to be ever released after. If you keep generating same report again and again, IIS eventually runs out of memory. A report does not call any external DLLs or COM objects. Calling repDoc.Dispose() does not seem to help. Please help. 

Methods:
Dispose()
GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers()
GC.Collect()
Details:
I created a C# application that connects to BOXI.
It does not specifically use the ReportDocument object, but was also encountering serious memory issues.
I was also using the Dipose method to mark objects for garbage collection.
.Net garbage collection happens automatically (at some time or another), but you can force it using GC.Collect(). I tried this, but was still leaking memory.
Until I found GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers(), which causes the garbage collector to wait until all disposed objects have completely finished their destructors. I think this made the difference with BOXI objects, because they are nested.
After I was using all three methods, I had no more memory issues. I realize this information may be out of date, but I posted it for future seekers.

Flash is killing Safari, which is leaking memory ...

I just saw in Activity Monitor that the Flash plugin is using 147% of the CPU, with one Flash movie playing in one of 12 open Tabs
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I am now quitting Safari routinely every 2 to 3 hours to get the CPU usage down and free RAM for other stuff, but I don't think this method makes for a great user experience.

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Simple JSP leaks memory?

Simple HelloWorld.jsp leaks memory significantly. Tested with SoapUI setup with 40 clients driving load. At around invocation 100,000 the WLS server simply leaks enough memory to hit the upper heap size and dies. I'm running V10.3.2 (latest) in Production mode with the JRocket JVM. I also tried the same test with HelloWorld.HTML file and found no memory leaks, it runs HTML test fine up to 1,000,000 invocations with no memory or thread leaks.
This test can not be any simpler.
Also, performance goes down significantly as memory leaks! I go from 500tps down to 100tps just prior to running out of memory.
The JSP file is extremely simple, here's the code:
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Hello World JSP</title>
</head>
<body>
Hello World!
</body>
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Why would such a simple JSP file cause the WebContainer to leak memory? I'm at a loss here.
Edited by: user9200447 on Feb 26, 2010 10:47 AM

It depends on the test being run. One possibility is it may be due to implicit session objects.
Try using session=false otherwise session objects are created implicitly for this jsp. Dependng on sesson timeout, hits and java heap memory size you can run out of memory
HTH

How to avoid the case of leaks memory in Object Oriented Programming

Hi, Everyone, I am writing a simple web-baed application for JSP and Servlet, I pass all data from JSP to Servlet, It is due to the number of row of record are variable, so I should write a Java Instance class to stored to specific data in a Java Object, and then stored those object in a arraylist In the Servlet class, and then pass the arraylist in to a session, to pass the session from the servlet to another JSP......
But some thing I am worried about is that if the no of row of record user input is large, then the number of object stored in the arraylist will also large. I am worried it will serious leaks memoary in my server. Because my server always occurs "Out Of Memoary Exception" in Tomcat, So If I use the above method. I affarid the memory will be further leaking in my server. So What can I do? Is it having any better method to prevent memory leaking when using Object Oriented Programming(Except using Hibernate)?
Can Anyone be help me?
Thank you very much for All, THX

Because many people say that the large amount of
using Object will lead to "memory leak", I am worried
about the size of object I use is too large and then
it will construct "memory leak". No it will not! You get a 'memory leak' by holding references to objects you no longer require.
>
The detail of my case is that:
In my web application, there is a session variable
pass through from one servlet to another jsp/servlet.You should only place small amounts of data in the session. If you need forward from a Servlet to a JSP (or JSP to Servlet) then you should place the data object in the request (using the setAttribute() method), not in the session. In this way, when the session is re-claimed so will be the data object.
And this session variable is stored a Instance Object
(which is a class write by me) with the following
issue:
1) This instance object having "has-a relationship"
with another four instance object (all are the
classes write by me)
2) This instance object having "has relationship"
with a arraylist, this arraylist is stored about 4-5
instance object(all are the classes write by me) .
If this object having the above issue, Will this
object construct a "leaks memory" when this object
stored in the session and pass through servlet to
another jsp/servlet?
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SystemUIServer leaks memory, possibly related to spotlight

SystemUIServer leaks memory. Immediately after reboot it occupies about 8 to 9 MB (real) on my system. Climbing to more than 17MB after only 30 minutes. After 3 days, 20 hours of uptime total real memory consumption of the SystemUIServer process was 441MB. Upon researching the process I found this forum devoted to Spotlight and interaction with SystemUIServer. Testing, I found Spotlight was unresponsive, the tool would not pull down and it didn't respond to the keboard shortcut.
Killing SystemUIServer brings the process memory usage back down but it continues to climb as it runs. Spotlight became responsive.
System is fully patched and updated.
I also noticed after rebooting from update that iSync logs messages like the following in console.log:
2007-08-09 05:54:54.180 SyncServer[3857] A Sync Server is already running on this computer, exiting process.

I guess my question would be, does anyone know when Apple is going to fix either Spotlight or SystemUIServer so it doesn't leak/crash as seems to so common here in the discussion groups?
Probably need a bit more troubleshooting...
My uptime is now 3days 20 hours -odd coincidence.
SystemUIServer is using 10.96MB Real Mem.
So, I don't know if I would expect Apple to already believe that there is a problem needing to be fixed. Really, don't think anything in this forum can be considered "common." For a core function of the OS, the Spotlight forum is now one of the quietest of all the Tiger forums- only one that sees less action is UniversalAccess.
Anyway, I'm not sure why you're having a problem with memory leaks in SystemUIServer or with Spotlight, and I'm not enough of a developer to tell you how you could debug it. All I can say is that your situation is not the norm and that there is likely something specific to your situation that is causing it. The unresponsiveness of Spotlight may very well be a side effect of the memory leak which is being caused by something else on the menubar.

ClassCastExceptions in Java6 leak memory (not heap, but VM memory)

I have been closely monitoring this reported bug for a while ( [6676058|http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6676058] ), and still cannot get any answers. It was marked as Closed, duplicate of [6631248|http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6631248] , but as you can see, issue 6631248 doesn't seem to exist (or at least it is not accessible). So I thought I would post here and see if anyone has any answers? When will this bug be fixed, or can we at least get some more information on it? I apologize if this is the wrong place to post such a message (sorry for the duplicate), but I have posted a few times on the bug report itself with no answers in sight.
In my opinion, this is a major bug, since ClassCastExceptions are sometimes suppressed in code, so coming up with a workaround (especially for a large codebase) can be difficult. It is probably a problem for a lot more people who don't realize it yet. Currently, the only workaround is to try to find all the potential places where ClassCastExceptions could be thrown, and replace them with an explicit instanceof check. Using instanceof is not a good solution since it can change the behavior slightly (ie. it returns false for a null value). A fix for this memory leak would be much appreciated :).

You're right, 6631248 isn't accessible. However, the bug was fixed in jdk 6 update 10 and in current jdk7 builds; the jdk7 fix is [changeset 9785f6d2dd97|http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/hotspot/rev/9785f6d2dd97].

Gnome3 seems to leak memory until the system is unusable

I recently upgraded to Gnome 3. I've had a number of problems but am working on getting them resolved. Currently the biggest one is probably that the gnome-shell process apparently has a big memory leak as far as I can tell.
Right after booting it uses a fairly small amount of memory, but within a few hours it's usually at 1GB or more. About once a day I'll be in the middle of some game or something and the system will almost completely lock up and be unusable. I can't even get any programs to launch. At best, if I can actually get to the launcher, it will tell me "could not allocate memory" if I try to launch a terminal or system monitor, and it doesn't seem to want to let me switch off to different virtual terminals either. The only solution seems to be a hard reset when it does this, and when it comes back up and does a fsck it's always cleaning up a bunch of orphaned inodes. When it's locked up like this I can hear the hard drive going crazy reading and/or writing data, so my suspicion is that it's filling up my system memory then filling up my swap space, then everything starts falling apart and the system becomes unusable.
I googled for gnome-shell memory leaks and most people seem to report it only leaking like 200MB or something relatively small. What can I do here?

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24033
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