SoftReference incorrect javadoc?
David Holmes
david.holmes at oracle.com
Tue Apr 16 02:19:41 UTC 2019
Hi Michael,
Re-directing to core-libs-dev and hotspot-gc-dev.
Thanks,
David
On 16/04/2019 12:14 pm, Michael Pollmeier wrote:
> Quoting
> https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/ref/SoftReference.html
>
>
>> All soft references to softly-reachable objects are guaranteed to have
> been cleared before the virtual machine throws an OutOfMemoryError
>
> That statement was true when soft references were first introduced in
> java 1.2, but from java 1.3.1 the jvm property
> `-XX:SoftRefLRUPolicyMSPerMB` was introduced.
> It defaults to 1000 (milliseconds), meaning that if there’s only 10MB
> available heap, the garbage collector will free references that have
> been used more than 10s ago. I.e. everything else (including young
> softly reachable objects) will *not* be freed, leading to an
> OutOfMemoryError, contradicting the above quoted 'guarantee'.
>
> That's also the behaviour I observed on various JREs. Would you agree,
> i.e. should I propose an updated doc?
>
> Cheers
> Michael
>
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