IcedTea-web: Memory leak - java side

[Deepak Bhole]

* Jiri Vanek <jvanek at redhat.com> [2014-01-16 08:32]:
> On 01/16/2014 10:16 AM, Efrat Lefeber wrote:
> >Do you know why it was reverted? When will a new patch be released? I am working on a project and it is very urgent for me.
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Deepak Bhole [mailto:dbhole at redhat.com]
> >Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 11:07 PM
> >To: Efrat Lefeber
> >Cc: distro-pkg-dev at openjdk.java.net; jiri Vanek; Andrew Azores
> >Subject: Re: IcedTea-web: Memory leak - java side
> >
> >* Efrat Lefeber <ELefeber at trustwave.com> [2014-01-15 10:27]:
> >>I am using icedtea-6-plugin with firefox on linux debian (wheezy).
> >>
> >>I noticed that after opening applets in firefox tabs, and closing
> >>them, some objects in java plugin are not released, which causes the
> >>heap size of the jvm to keep increasing.
> >>
> >>For example, I see that the PluginAppletViewer object is not released,
> >>also the applet object itself and each classloader of each applet.
> >>
> >>If I open and close a webpage containing a java applet, the jvm
> >>eventually will get out of memory exception.
> >>
> >>Looking at the plugin code, I see that when closing the applet window,
> >>the function PluginAppletViewer.destroyApplet is called, but in this
> >>flow, not all objects are release.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Is there a way to free the memory without taking down the jvm to
> >>prevent the increase in memory?
> >>
> >
> >I know some objects are kept around to make subsequent startups faster.
> >But PluginAppletViewer does not sound like something that belongs on that list.
> >
> >Adam (Domurad) had proposed a patch to clean memory as much as possible but I think at one point it had to be reverted.
> 
> Did he?
> 
> He fixed many, really *many* leaks in C part. All are in, and none was ever reverted.
> Here we are about java side. AFAIK the leaks here were never tried to be hunted.
> 
> Also freeing of PluginAppletViewer .... I doubt someone have ever tried...
> 

There was one where he mentioned the Java side, I think it was the same
one that did lazy initialization of objects on Java side.

Deepak

> 
> I have cc'ed him but I do not wont to bother him during studies. So unless I really missed something...
> >
> >Jiri, Andrew, do you know the status of this?
> 
> J.
>