Re: huge memory amount bound by sleeping standard tags

Thank you for the hint, it worked quite well.

Thomas

Kris Schneider schrieb:
> thomas rimmele-nguyen wrote:
>> Tomcat 5.0.27
>
> Look in $CATALINA_HOME/conf/web.xml for the jsp servlet 
> (org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet) and set its enablePooling 
> init-param to false.
>
>> Does it have a big impact on performance?
>
> Hard to say. It's likely app and tag dependent. First, see if it 
> solves your memory issue. If it does, then decide if the app's 
> performance is still acceptable. If it is, ship it! ;-)
>
> P.S.
> If the app's performance isn't acceptable with pooling disabled, keep 
> using the profiler to be sure you're identifying the real performance 
> issues...
>
>> Kris Schneider schrieb:
>>
>>> 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
>