Re: huge memory amount bound by sleeping standard tags

thomas rimmele-nguyen schrieb:
> Hy,
>
> I was searching a memory leak in our application. A profiler told me 
> that  there are standard tags (probably sleeping in a pool) that are 
> holding the references to our objects.  Especially the items-variable 
> in the forEach-tag seems to be very greedy in our application.
>
> When I modified the standard-tag code (call a Tag.release() within 
> every TryCatchFinally.doFinally()), our objects were garbage-collected 
> as desired.
>
> The javadoc of javax.servlet.jsp..Tag tells, that the call of 
> release() is NOT guaranteed for every usage of a Tag. So everything 
> seems to be ok, no bug.
>
> But does anybody have good advice how I could reduce the amount of 
> bound memory?
>
>
> Greetings,
>
> Thomas
>