Re: Watch out for memory leaks with EhCache

> On Dec 10, 2019, at 9:39 PM, John Huss <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> My projects are set up to use soft references using "
>> cayenne.server.object_retain_strategy=soft". I wouldn't expect this to
>> behave differently than weak under memory pressure, but my unit test with
>> soft is not releasing this memory. I'll try running the test with "weak"
>> and see if that changes it. And I'll look at your project (thanks for
>> that).
>> 
> 
> To clarify for future readers, we're talking about objects being retained
> by this reference path:
> QueryCache -> cached_object -> ObjectContext ->
> other_objects_that_weren't_cached
> 
> Sorry, I was wrong about the cause here. The persistent objects ARE
> released by the context's objectStore (whether using weak or soft). But the
> context is still retaining a lot of extra memory. I'm having a hard time
> determining the specific cause. It might be the dataRowCache?

If you have "Use Shared Cache" unchecked in the modeler, then you get a single dataRowCache per context, so that would definitely explain it. I am using the default - one dataRowCache per stack, shared by all contexts, so that's never a problem.

Andrus