Firefox 3.6 has a memory leak with Winamp Toolbar on Windows 7
I recently installed the Winamp Toolbar and everytime I closed FF, it would hang and stay open and my CPU would be 100%. The only way to shut it down was thru the task manager. It took me some time to figure out exactly what the problem was but after uninstalling just the Winamp Toolbar, FF closed smoothly. So, im pretty positive it has to do with Winamp Toolbar. I have contacted Winamp but with no response.
I am running Windows 7 Premium Home Edition (64-bit) and Firefox 3.6.10.
I wanted to add that I've been having this problem as well.
I believe it is not OS specific, because I've been having this both on my XP & my windows 7 ( both 32bit home editions).
I can add that just disabling the addon suffices to prevent the problem. But if you can't use it, you're better of uninstalling it anyway
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My computer is running low on RAM, and when I look at what processes are using the most memory, firefox is the number one using between 28,000 to 93,000k, so I'm guessing that it has a memory leak.
And because of that memory leak I have to update firefox, however I really dislike the newest version of firefox and I'd prefer to stick with the version I have, which is 3.5.Often the memory problems are not just from Firefox in isolation, but partly relating to all the extensions available for it and then the videos and animations it runs on media rich sites.
The first thing to do is to upgrade to firefox 3.6 which is at least a supported version (Maybe not for much longer)
* see [[updating firefox]]
Next version after 3.6 is 4, you should avoid that, it did have some memory problems, that were worse than 3,6 and firefox 4 is no longer secure or supported.
The techies at Firefox have been working on memory problems recently and have made many improvements, but some of these improvements are only seen in the trial versions of Firefox.
I would in fact suggest you upgrade to Firefox 5 the current release version (soon to be replaced with Firefox 6)
I am able to run Firefox v3.6 to v8 on legacy XPs with less than 1GB RAM. Firefox in itself is not necessarily very demanding in terms of RAM. I am not sure what the figures are you are quoting, or whether they are high. ( Note 1Gb is in the order of 1 000 000 k )
As for not liking the set-up of new versions of Firefox, there is quite abit that can be changed, maybe you would be able to configure it more to your liking with little effort. -
Memory leaks with Third party classes
Hello all,
This is fairly known problem. But I guess, my problem gives a new dimention to the problem.
I have an application which is developed by me. This application ideally needed to use third party classes ( obviously no source code is supplied ). These third party classes provide extra functionality required.
The problem is, when I don't use third party classes in my application, every thing is fine. When I include third party classes, I am having memory leaks.
Then I tried to investigate memory leaks with Optimizeit tool. It is new to me. As of now, I understood, we can identify where the memory leaks are occuring.
finally the problem is, in order to solve this, I need some patches in the code. But I don't have source code for those classes. How to solve this problem?
For example,
I use a third party classes in my code like this,
ThirdPartyMemoryLeakClass obj = new ThirdPartyMemoryLeakClass();
This 'obj' is made static, as it takes lot of time to create this object. Obviously this object contains several references to other objects, which I can't control.
In the process of reusing this object, I am getting memory leaks.
Any ideas regarding, how one has to deal this type of situations? What are the issues involved with this case? Are there any similar problems, which have been solved? are most welcome.
many thanks for your time.
MadhavDecompile it using jad. Find leak.Yes, I too got the idea and tried to decompile those classes and recompile. I had some problems while recompiling. Is this is the only way to get rid of this problem?
I was refering to powersoft.datawindow.DataStore class. Does any body here has worked on these?
Can you suggest me how to find the memory leak causes? if you were needed to find out memory leak causes, what would be your approach?
Madhav -
Memory leak with multi-threaded environment
When starting an environment with the THREADED_MUTEXED
or THREADED_UNMUTEXED mode parameter, the oracle OCCI API
has a memory leak. This can be demonstrated by modifying
the "occidml.cpp" demo program as follows:
Replace line 26:
env = Environment::createEnvironment (Environment::DEFAULT);
with
env = Environment::createEnvironment (Environment::THREADED_MUTEXED);
And replace line 164:
demo->displayAllRows();
with
for (int ii=0; ii<10000; ii++) demo->displayAllRows();
Recompile and run the program, and use "top" to see the
size of the process's used memory continually increase
unbounded.
I am using the Oracle 9.2.0.1.0 database on Linux,
gcc version 2.96.
Is anyone aware of a fix for this problem?Yeah, I did suffer from this.
If possible , you can switch to using OCCI on Oracle 10G client , you will find no memory leak issue anymore.
Another issue is that OCCI is using default connection-blocking implementation , if a DB connection is blocked by accident just like plugging out the network link, you can not get any timeout or connection closed indications. You must implement your own OCCI connection timeout strategy, and you must kill the thread/process you are using. -
Memory leak with 1.6.0_07 in applet using Swing
Java Plug-in 1.6.0_07
Using JRE version 1.6.0_07 Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
Windows XP - SP2
I have a commercial application that has developed a memory leak with the introduction of the latest plugin. The applets chew up memory and eventually freeze. They did not before. Using jvisualm I see a build up of native arrays, primarily int[][] and char[]. I'm still investigating. Anyone have a similar experience?
The Applet uses a swing interface, uses buffered images and swing timers, and regularly performs http connections to the server which result in actions via the SwingUtil.invokeLater() method.I am Using Internet Explorer Browser Version 6.0.Huge security hole.
Its not throwing Error / Exception Wrap a try/catch at the highest level possible.
Catch 'Throwable'. And log/display it somewhere. -
Memory leak with UI automation
Hi,
I noticed there is memory leak with UI automation in my window 8.1.
I noticed there is solution for window 8
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2885482
Is there any solution for window 8.1?
I really appreciate for any help.Hi,
I'm sorry for didn't hear anything about this issue. I'll try to connect the writer of this KB, hope we can find some suggestion. If there is any progress about this problem, I would come back.
Roger Lu
TechNet Community Support -
It seems there is a memory leak with JPopupMenu. The following program demonstrates this leak. If you run the program, click on show form, and then close the form, the used memory will be GCd appropriately. If you click on show form, then right click on the table to show the popup (even if you dont do anything else with the popup) then close the form, it never GCs the form. I've tried all kinds of crazy things, but I cant seem to find what is keeping the memory from being GCd.
Peter
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;
import java.awt.event.WindowListener;
import java.beans.PropertyChangeListener;
import java.text.DecimalFormat;
import java.util.Timer;
import java.util.TimerTask;
import java.util.Vector;
import javax.swing.AbstractAction;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JMenuItem;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JPopupMenu;
import javax.swing.JRadioButtonMenuItem;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTabbedPane;
import javax.swing.JTable;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
import javax.swing.table.AbstractTableModel;
@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class TriState extends JPanel {
private static final long K = 1024;
private static final long M = K * K;
private static final long G = M * K;
private static final long T = G * K;
protected static int ctr = 1;
private JButton btnShow = new JButton("Show Form");
private JLabel lblMem = new JLabel();
private static final DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat("#,##0.#");
protected Timer updateTimer = new Timer();
public TriState() {
this.setLayout(new GridLayout());
add(btnShow);
add(lblMem);
updateTimer.scheduleAtFixedRate(new UpdateTimerTask(), 1000, 1000);
btnShow.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
@Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
FrmReferrals fr = new FrmReferrals();
fr.setVisible(true);
class UpdateTimerTask extends TimerTask {
public void run() {
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
dumpMemoryUsage();
protected void dumpMemoryUsage() {
System.gc();
Long t = Runtime.getRuntime().totalMemory();
long f = Runtime.getRuntime().freeMemory();
String st = convertToStringRepresentation(t);
String sf = convertToStringRepresentation(f);
String su = convertToStringRepresentation(t - f);
System.out.println("Total:" + st + "(" + t + ") Free:" + sf + "(" + f + ") Used:" + su + "(" + (t - f) + ")");
lblMem.setText(su + "/" + st);
public static String convertToStringRepresentation(final long value) {
final long[] dividers = new long[]{T, G, M, K, 1};
final String[] units = new String[]{"TB", "GB", "MB", "KB", "B"};
if (value < 1)
throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid file size: " + value);
String result = null;
for (int i = 0; i < dividers.length; i++) {
final long divider = dividers;
if (value >= divider) {
final double dr = divider > 1 ? (double) value / (double) divider : (double) value;
result = df.format(dr) + units[i];
break;
return result;
private static void createAndShowGUI() {
JFrame frame = new JFrame("SimpleTableDemo");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
// Create and set up the content pane.
TriState newContentPane = new TriState();
newContentPane.setOpaque(true); // content panes must be opaque
frame.setContentPane(newContentPane);
// Display the window.
frame.pack();
frame.setVisible(true);
public static void main(String[] args) {
javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
createAndShowGUI();
protected class PopupMenu extends JPopupMenu {
public PopupMenu() {
JRadioButtonMenuItem item1 = new JRadioButtonMenuItem(new AbstractAction("Insert Item") {
@Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
System.out.println(e.getActionCommand());
item1.setActionCommand("Insert");
add(item1);
JRadioButtonMenuItem item2 = new JRadioButtonMenuItem(new AbstractAction("Delete Item") {
@Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
System.out.println(e.getActionCommand());
item2.setActionCommand("Delete");
add(item2);
public class FrmReferrals extends JFrame {
public FrmReferrals() {
super();
init();
protected void init() {
jbInit();
protected void closeIt() {
uninit();
// variables here
protected Dimension dimPreferred = new Dimension(1270, 995);
protected JTabbedPane tabbedPane = new JTabbedPane();
protected JTable tblReferrals = null;
protected PopupMenu popMenu = new PopupMenu();
protected void jbInit() {
setPreferredSize(dimPreferred);
setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
setTitle("Referrals");
JPanel pnl = new JPanel();
pnl.setOpaque(false);
pnl.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
pnl.add(tabbedPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);
// put it all in the frame
add(pnl);
pack();
setLocationRelativeTo(null);
// init the table and model
ReferralsTableModel ctm = new ReferralsTableModel(buildDummyVector());
tblReferrals = new JTable(ctm);
tblReferrals.setComponentPopupMenu(popMenu);
tblReferrals.setAutoResizeMode(JTable.AUTO_RESIZE_OFF);
tabbedPane.add(new JScrollPane(tblReferrals, JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED, JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED));
addWindowListener(new WindowListener() {
@Override
public void windowActivated(WindowEvent e) {}
@Override
public void windowClosed(WindowEvent e) {}
@Override
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
closeIt();
@Override
public void windowDeactivated(WindowEvent e) {}
@Override
public void windowDeiconified(WindowEvent e) {}
@Override
public void windowIconified(WindowEvent e) {}
@Override
public void windowOpened(WindowEvent e) {}
protected Vector<DBO_Referrals> buildDummyVector() {
Vector<DBO_Referrals> vr = new Vector<DBO_Referrals>();
for (int x = 0; x < 5000; x++) {
DBO_Referrals r = new DBO_Referrals(x+(5000*ctr));
vr.add(r);
return vr;
protected void uninit() {
tblReferrals.setComponentPopupMenu(null);
for (Component c : popMenu.getComponents()) {
PropertyChangeListener[] pl = c.getPropertyChangeListeners();
for (PropertyChangeListener l : pl)
c.removePropertyChangeListener(l);
if (c instanceof JMenuItem) {
ActionListener [] al = ((JMenuItem)c).getActionListeners();
for (ActionListener l : al) {
((JMenuItem)c).removeActionListener(l);
popMenu = null;
protected class DBO_Referrals {
protected long id;
protected String Employee;
protected String Rep;
protected String Asst;
protected String Client;
protected String Dates;
protected String Status;
protected String Home;
public DBO_Referrals(long id) {
this.id = id;
Employee = "Employee" + id;
Rep = "Rep" + id;
Asst = "Asst" + id;
Client = "Client" + id;
Dates = "Dates" + id;
Status = "Status" + id;
Home = "Home" + id;
public long getId() {
return id;
public String getEmployee() {
return Employee;
public String getRep() {
return Rep;
public String getAsst() {
return Asst;
public String getClient() {
return Client;
public String getDates() {
return Dates;
public String getStatus() {
return Status;
public String getHome() {
return Home;
public class ReferralsTableModel extends AbstractTableModel {
protected Vector<DBO_Referrals> data = new Vector<DBO_Referrals>();
protected String[] sColumns = {"id", "Employee", "Rep", "Assistant", "Client", "Date", "Status", "Home", "R"};
public ReferralsTableModel() {
super();
public ReferralsTableModel(Vector<DBO_Referrals> data) {
this();
this.data = data;
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
@Override
public Class getColumnClass(int col) {
switch (col) {
case 0 :
return Long.class;
default :
return String.class;
@Override
public int getColumnCount() {
return sColumns.length;
@Override
public int getRowCount() {
return data.size();
@Override
public Object getValueAt(int row, int col) {
if (row > data.size())
return null;
DBO_Referrals a = data.get(row);
switch (col) {
case 0 :
return a.getId();
case 1 :
return a.getEmployee();
case 2 :
return a.getRep();
case 3 :
return a.getAsst();
case 4 :
return a.getClient();
case 5 :
return a.getDates();
case 6 :
return a.getStatus();
case 7 :
return a.getHome();
case 8 :
return "+";
default :
return null;BTW instead of continually printing out the memory use a profiler (jvisualvm in the jdk/bin directory -> heapdump -> search on your class -> view in instances -> find nearest GC root).
Looks like BasicPopupMenuUI doesn't remove a reference to the JRootPane immediately. As far as I can see it will be removed when another menu shows.
As a hackish workaround you can try this in you FrmReferrals#uninit():
for(ChangeListener listener : MenuSelectionManager.defaultManager().getChangeListeners()) {
if (listener.getClass().getName().contains("MenuKeyboardHelper")) {
try {
Field field = listener.getClass().getDeclaredField("menuInputMap");
field.setAccessible(true);
field.set(listener, null);
} catch (Exception e) {
// ignored
break;
}Funnily enough though it isn't there when I reduce your code to a SSCCE:
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class TestBasicPopupMenuUILeak extends JFrame {
public TestBasicPopupMenuUILeak() {
super("Not collected right away");
public static void main(String[] args) {
EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Test");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
frame.getContentPane().add(
new JButton(new AbstractAction("Show frame") {
@Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
JLabel label = new JLabel(
"Right click to show popup, then close this frame."
+ "The frame with not be GCed until another (popup) menu is shown.");
JPopupMenu popup = new JPopupMenu(
"Popup");
popup.add("Item");
label.setComponentPopupMenu(popup);
// named differently so you can find it
// easily in your favorite profiler
JFrame frame = new TestBasicPopupMenuUILeak();
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
frame.getContentPane().add(label);
frame.pack();
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
frame.pack();
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
} -
Firefox 10.0 says it's incompatible with Norton Toolbar and Norton 360 Identity Safe. We recently had this with upgrade to Firefox 9.0. Can the update/workaround Norton provided for Firefox 9.0. somehow be incorporated in 10.0?
No, it's still in version 5.2.0.13, but the update/patch sent resolved the problem!
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While using Firefox 21.0 on OS X 10.8.4 with 4GB RAM, Firefox memory usage marches up and up until at 3GB (on my iMac) Firefox hangs and is 100% non-responsive and must be killed with Force Quit. It takes 10 minutes to occur.
No Add Ons
One tabJohn99,
Unfortunately, the problem was WORSE in FF 22.0. I regressed to FF21.0 and shut off automatic updates. I may even go back to FF3.6, which is the last one where I didn't see this problem.
Thank you for trying but as a longstanding developer I know that pervasive memory leaks is a sign of a broken development process. Thank you for trying... -
Firefox 4.0 RC has huge memory leak + slow down problem
Firefox 4.0 RC Seems to have a huge memory leak issue. After leaving the program open for around half an hour the RAM usage climbs to over 1 gb.
However, I have 12 gb of physical ram, so firefox staking 1 gb for itself is not too big of a problem (and is probably a blessing as it means it's caching more data), but the problem is that the UI begins to slow down and become clunky after about 30 minutes.
Browsing, switching tabs, even typing becomes jittery and not very responsive.
This happens regardless of how many tabs I have open.
Now it's also crashing every once in a while.Even with Firefox 4.0 (Release) running in Safe Mode, with all add-ons and themes disabled, I'm still inclined to think there's something screwy going on here.
I was watching Page Faults/sec, Page File Bytes and Working Set in Performance Monitor and tailing the Privoxy log for requests. Even with Firefox minimized and "doing nothing" (making no requests, anyway), over the space of a 10 minute period the Working Set grew from 244,375,552 bytes to 274,939,004 bytes (averaging 50,939 bytes/second). This behaviour doesn't seem consistent though - sometimes it doesn't seem to grow at all.
Additionally the Page Faults/Sec went nuts, accompanied by a step in Page File Bytes and Working Set, whenever a request got made to http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/downloads which seems to happens on a regular basis (approximately every 30 minutes). -
Hello all,
Not sure if this is the right place to post this but here goes. I have a program that needs to change the font of at least 250,000 letters, however after doing this the program runs slow and laggy as if changing the fonts of each letter took up memory and never released it? Here is a compilable example, Click the button at the bottom of the window and watch the letter it is currently working on. You will notice that around 200,000 it will begin to not smoothly count up anymore but count in kind of a skipping pattern. This seems to get worse the more you do it and seems to indicate to me that something is using memory and not releasing it. I'm not sure why replacing a letter's font with a new font would cause more memory to be taken up I would think if I was doing it properly it would simply replace the old font with the new one not taking anymore memory then it did before. Here is the example: This program sometimes locks up so be prepared. If someone could maybe point out what is causing this to take up more memory after changing the fonts that would be great and hopefully find a solution :) Thanks in advance.
-neptune692
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package paintsurface;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.util.List;
public class PaintSurface implements Runnable, ActionListener {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new PaintSurface());
List<StringState> states = new ArrayList<StringState>();
Tableaux tableaux;
Random random = new Random();
Font font = new Font("Arial",Font.PLAIN,15);
// Point mouselocation = new Point(0,0);
static final int WIDTH = 1000;
static final int HEIGHT = 1000;
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
JButton add;
public void run() {
tableaux = new Tableaux();
for (int i=250000; --i>=0;)
addRandom();
frame.add(tableaux, BorderLayout.CENTER);
add = new JButton("Change Font of letters - memory leak?");
add.addActionListener(this);
frame.add(add, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.setSize(WIDTH, HEIGHT);
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
new Thread(new ChangeFonts()).start();
void addRandom() {
tableaux.add(
Character.toString((char)('a'+random.nextInt(26))),
UIManager.getFont("Button.font"),
random.nextInt(WIDTH), random.nextInt(HEIGHT));
//THIS CLASS SEEMS TO HAVE SOME KIND OF MEMORY LEAK I'M NOT SURE?
class ChangeFonts implements Runnable {
public void run() {
Random rand = new Random();
for(int i = 0; i<states.size(); i++) {
font = new Font("Arial",Font.PLAIN,rand.nextInt(50));
states.get(i).font = font;
add.setText("Working on letter - "+i);
class StringState extends Rectangle {
StringState(String str, Font font, int x, int y, int w, int h) {
super(x, y, w, h);
string = str;
this.font = font;
String string;
Font font;
class Tableaux extends JComponent {
Tableaux() {
this.enableEvents(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOTION_EVENT_MASK);
lagState = createState("Lag", new Font("Arial",Font.BOLD,20), 0, 0);
protected void processMouseMotionEvent(MouseEvent e) {
repaint(lagState);
lagState.setLocation(e.getX(), e.getY());
repaint(lagState);
super.processMouseMotionEvent(e);
StringState lagState;
StringState createState(String str, Font font, int x, int y) {
FontMetrics metrics = getFontMetrics(font);
int w = metrics.stringWidth(str);
int h = metrics.getHeight();
return new StringState(str, font, x, y-metrics.getAscent(), w, h);
public void add(String str, Font font, int x, int y) {
StringState state = createState(str, font, x, y);
states.add(state);
repaint(state);
protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
Rectangle clip = g.getClipBounds();
FontMetrics metrics = g.getFontMetrics();
for (StringState state : states) {
if (state.intersects(clip)) {
if (!state.font.equals(g.getFont())) {
g.setFont(state.font);
metrics = g.getFontMetrics();
g.drawString(state.string, state.x, state.y+metrics.getAscent());
if (lagState.intersects(clip)) {
g.setColor(Color.red);
if (!lagState.font.equals(g.getFont())) {
g.setFont(lagState.font);
metrics = g.getFontMetrics();
g.drawString("Lag", lagState.x, lagState.y+metrics.getAscent());
}Here is the block of code that I think is causing the problem:
//THIS CLASS SEEMS TO HAVE SOME KIND OF MEMORY LEAK I'M NOT SURE?
class ChangeFonts implements Runnable {
public void run() {
Random rand = new Random();
for(int i = 0; i<states.size(); i++) {
font = new Font("Arial",Font.PLAIN,rand.nextInt(50));
states.get(i).font = font; // this line seems to cause the problem?
add.setText("Working on letter - "+i);
}neptune692 wrote:
jverd wrote:
You're creating a quarter million distinct Font objects, and obviously you must be hanging on to all of them because each character is having its font set to the newly created object. So if you have 250k chars, you're forcing it to have 250k Font objects.
Since the only difference is that rand.nextInt(50) parameter, just pre-create 50 Font objects with 0..49, stick 'em in the corresponding elements in an array, and use rand.nextInt to select the Font object to use.That does make sense but it does that when the the program is first launched and doesn't lag. But the second and third time you change the letters font it seems to lag so if it wasn't taking up more memory the second time it should perform like it did when it first launched. I don't care to investigate any further. The real problem is almost certainly the quarter million Font objects. It could be that 250k is fine, but by the time you get to 500k, it has to do a lot of GC, and that's where the slow down is coming. You might even be able to make it work better with the code you have just by tweaking the GC parameters at startup, but I wouldn't bother. Fix the code first, and then see if you have issues.
Does creating a new font for each of those letters not replace the old font object? If it didn't use more memory the second and third time I don't think you would see the skipping in the counter and the slowing down of the iterations. So it must be remembering some of the old font objects or am I wrong?Using new always creates a new object. When you do it the second time around, and call letter.setFont(newFont), the old Font object is eligible for GC. That doesn't mean it will be GCed right away though. The JVM can leave them all laying around until it runs out of memory, and then GC some or all of them. -
Memory Leak with 4.5.1/Java/Solaris
Hi,
We are currently running a Java Application using RMI/Weblogic 4.5.1/Solaris 5.7/Java 1.22.
Behavior that has been observered during the day is that memory usage reaches a stage in which it begins increasing and GC doesn't recover any memory, until the heap reaches an extremly large size, then recovers a significant amount of memory.
We have even seen the java process grab more memory than specified in the -Xmx parameter and experience a java.lang.OutOfMemory error.
I have seen postings that describe similar issues in this newsgroup, but none that define a solution.
This problem is intermittent, and our application can run an entire day without experiencing this memory leak. On the other hand there are days when the memory leak occurrs even when the system is idle overnight.
Please let me know any information you have gathered on this subject.
Regards,
Mark Evanstry increasing your virtual memory on your NT system...
"Parasher K. Joshi" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
Hi,
I observed the same confusing stuff in my tests. But I run weblogic 4.5.1 on Windows NT with JDK 1.2.2-w
Usually, I would get a "Low virtual memory" message from windows
and if I click ok & shuffle thourgh my windows I would be ok.
But since last 2 days, I would keep the server running overnight.
When I return in morning,
I would find a "Low virtual memory" message and
on clicking OK. I would find another message tell me that java.exe (which was running weblogic) crashed!!
Now today I tried to watch the memory usage in Task Manager. And I found the most wierd thing.
I saw that even when the system was doing virtually nothing,
except print a string at intervals, the memory usage would go
up steadyly.
Even doing a forced finalization and gc did not seem to stop it.
BUT, BY CHANCE I HAPPEN TO MINIMISE AND MAXIMISE THE WEBLOGIC
CONSOLE OUTPUT WINDOW.
WHAT I SAW IN THE TASK MANAGER AMAZED ME!
THE MEMORY USAGE IN TASK MANAGER HAD GONE DOWN TO 24XXKB, WHILE
IT WAS ABOUT 20000K OR EVEN MORE.
This seems to support the fact that during my test, I would
get the "low virtual memory" message and if OKed it and shuffled
though application windows (maybe minimise, maximise the weblogic
console output window in process), I would be able to complete
my application. But when the message appears during night runs,
nothing is done and by morning, when I reach to work,
I would see that weblogic had crashed!!
You may try that and see if it helps you.
Parasher
Mark Evans <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
We are currently running a Java Application using RMI/Weblogic 4.5.1/Solaris 5.7/Java 1.22.
Behavior that has been observered during the day is that memory usage reaches a stage in which it begins increasing and GC doesn't recover any memory, until the heap reaches an extremly large size, then recovers a significant amount of memory.
We have even seen the java process grab more memory than specified in the -Xmx parameter and experience a java.lang.OutOfMemory error.
I have seen postings that describe similar issues in this newsgroup, but none that define a solution.
This problem is intermittent, and our application can run an entire day without experiencing this memory leak. On the other hand there are days when the memory leak occurrs even when the system is idle overnight.
Please let me know any information you have gathered on this subject.
Regards,
Mark Evans -
Memory leak with CursoredStream
I want, first, to write a large collection of data in a file, and second, remove all these data.
I use CursoredStream to manage them.
I first use mark() method before iterate throw values with
while (hasMoreElements()) { nextElement(); }
loop, and second use reset() method to move back to first row before iterate again.
I can only use releasePrevious() method in the second iteration to avoid memory leak. But the first iteration creates objects that are not released.
If I use this method in the first iteration, I can't iterate the second times.
Is it a bug?
Is there a way to destroy all the created objects?Once you call releasePrevious() those objects are released and can only be accessed from a new query.
What is the IdentityMap type you have set in your project for the class you are reading and the related classes, if the class has no reference to it (from other classes) you will want to use no-identity map. If there are references then you will want to use WeakIdentityMap.
The second time you iterate through the Cursor you will be retrieving the same instance of objects as the first time, no extra memory will be used.
--Gordon -
Hello everyone.
I need some help with a problem we are having with our application. It consists on Servlets, JMS with MDBs, Xml parsing...
Our application dequeues messages from an Oracle Queue and sends xml-text message to a servlet. It also receives xml-text and enqueues objects in an Oracle Queue.
And it also has access to Oracle Database (context tables, etc).
We are doing everything on Tru64 Unix (and our tests on Win 2000) and we are using WebLogic 6.1.
Our problem is that we have found that it seems that the garbage collector is not running well. I mean, with the time our system is degrading. The memory use increases. It seems to be a memory leak.
We have used a testing tool, OptimizeIt, and we have found that there are
objects that are increasing the use of memory. If we use the option 'java -verbose' we find that it seems to be Hash objects (HashMap, Hashtable) which are increasing the use of memory. In our code we are not using any hashtable nor any class that extends from it (we have deleted everyone).
Can it be due to a problem with WebLogic? A problem with JMS, queues, etc? A problem with JNDI?
Could anybody please help us?
Thanks in advanced.Yes, we see that there are some entries of the type:
java/util/Hahstable$Entry
java/util/Hahstable
weblogic/jndi/Environment
This entries keep growing and growing with the time.
We have deleted all the Hashtable, Properties and all the kind of Collection objects. I guess WebLogic is using this objects in order to arrange our application runs.
Am I right? Do you know if we can do anything?
Thank you. -
Memory leak with File Write.vi
Hi All,
I am trying to save a big data cluster, which includes images, into a data log file. The vis I use are: New File.vi, Write File.vi, Close File.vi.
The problem is Write File.vi has memory leak when the data cluster includes images .
Anyone sees similar case? Any solution?
Thanks.
AiqiuAiqiu,
I am glad you found out about flattening your image to a string. I was about to post and say that you probably didn't want to save the IMAQ image reference to a file, because after you closed the image in memory, there wouldn't be anything for the IMAQ image reference to point to. You are correct to flatten the image to a string. Below is a link to a document which discusses doing this to communicate over datasocket, but the processes of flattening the image to a string is the same regardless of whether or not you are sending the image across a datasocket connection or saving to a file.
Transfering Images with DataSocket
As for the memory leak. I am pretty sure that if you passed all of the IMAQ Image references created in the "Image Init Buffer.vi" subVI and then closed each reference individually, that the memory leak would probably go away.
Lorne Hengst
Application Engineer
National Instruments
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