Re: huge memory amount bound by sleeping standard tags

thomas rimmele-nguyen wrote:
> 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?

One option would be to disable tag pooling. Which app server are you using?

> Greetings,
> 
> Thomas

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