memory leaks?

Srinivas Ramakrishna ysr1729 at gmail.com
Fri May 25 13:09:23 PDT 2012


Hi Dan -- I don't believe either is being used in this case.

-- ramki

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Daniel D. Daugherty <
daniel.daugherty at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hey Ramki!
>
> Do you happen to know if java.lang.instrument, JVM/TI RedefineClasses()
> or JVM/TI RetransformClasses() is being used by the system?
>
> Dan
>
>
>
> On 5/25/12 12:53 PM, Srinivas Ramakrishna wrote:
>
>>
>> Just a quick question in case any one might remember off the top of their
>> head...
>>
>> Are there any native memory leaks that may have been fixed in JDK 7 and 8
>> that haven't yet
>> been backported to JDK 6uXX?
>>
>> No need for any research... just a quick check to see if anyone recalls
>> anything recently that
>> fixed native leaks... i'll go check the hg logs momentarily to see if
>> anything jumps out.
>>
>> I am suspecting some 64 M segments that I see in pmap, and am yet to
>> figure out when and where
>> these are coming from... The leak is abrupt and likely the result of a
>> rather rare/infrequent event.
>> I'll see if I can find a DTrace that works on Linux and log mmap/munmap
>> calls to get more info.
>>
>> thanks for any (even very vague) pointers.
>> -- ramki
>>
>
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