Backporting 8020983: OutOfMemoryError caused by non garbage collected JPEGImageWriter Instances

Tue Aug 27 08:40:08 PDT 2013

Hi Andrew,

On 08/27/2013 11:22 AM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> 0.  What problem does this solve?

The current code has memory leaks. With some usage patterns, Java will
run heap space. For more details, please see the bug:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8020983

> 1.  Is this in jdk7u?

Yes: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u40/jdk/rev/46b203b37e06

> 2.  Is this in IcedTea6?

As far as I can see, no.

> 3.  Where has the bug ID information gone from the backported changeset?

webrevs can be generated against patches as well as changesets. This one
is not generated against a changeset (yet) since a simple hg
export/import did not work.

Thanks,
Omair

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