Unreachable Memory not freed

Jenny Zhang yu.zhang at oracle.com
Tue Jan 24 16:45:27 UTC 2017


Thorsten,

Can you please put the heap dump and gc logs somewhere for download?

Thanks
Jenny

On 1/24/2017 8:30 AM, Thorsten Goetzke wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am working on a closed source software that uses a patched version 
> of apache-batik to display SVG-Documents one by one. If you keep 
> loading and discarding some specific SVG-Documents memory consumption 
> keeps on growing until it reaches more than 95% of the available 
> memory. The application becomes unusable slow, very little memory gets 
> freed, although the gc is constantly running. Sometimes an 
> OutOfMemoryError gets thrown. I took memory snaphsots and analyzed 
> them using jvisualvm and yourkit. These tools report the majority of 
> the memory as unreachable.
> I have tried different garbage collectors (G1,ConcurrentMarkSweep),
> and different Versions of Java: 1.8_60;1.8_65;1.8_102, the issue is 
> always reproducible.
> Is there something i can do to debug this further? I am currently not 
> able to reproduce this issue in a somewhat small self contained example.
> I could provide gc-logs and the heap dump (about 1gb zipped) or any 
> other debuging info if someone is interested.
>
> Best Regards,
> Thorsten Goetzke
>
>
>
>
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