OpenJDK 7 u85 IcedTea 2.6.1 leak resources

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> It seems OpenJDK 7 u85 IcedTea 2.6.1 is leaking memory as described in
> this Arch Linux bug report:
> 
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/45824
> 
> As explained, with OpenJDK 7.u85 IcedTea 2.6.1:
> 
> - VisualVM, Netbeans, IntelliJ seam to make allocated pages go higher and
> higher
> - Neither TuxGuitar nor Eclipse exhibit this issue
> 
> With OpenJDK 7.u79 IcedTea 2.5.5, none of the mentioned application leak
> 
> I have been through IcedTea and OpenJDK bugs but could not find any
> relevant pointer. Could anyone confirm I haven't missed anything? I
> guess this would be enough to open a new bug report then?
> 
> -- Guillaume
> 

It may be this:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=561500
http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2568

in which case it'll be fixed in the 2.6.2 release coming later this week.
-- 
Andrew :)

Senior Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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