Troublesome reflection-cached SoftReferences

[Jon Masamitsu]

Y. Srinivas Ramakrishna wrote On 04/24/09 03:04,:

>Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
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>>>In any event, the JVM spec guarantees that all soft refs that are not 
>>>strongly reachable
>>>will be cleared before an OOM is issued., I trust your issue is one 
>>>of performance badness
>>>on account of a large heap, not an OOM?
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>>Actually it is an OOM problem.
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>If it is an OOM problem we can ignore discussion of how to more 
>aggressively clear the soft ref, since that is
>in some sense moot.
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Which garbage collector and which jdk release are you using?