Code Review for WeakReference leak in the Logging API (6942989)

[Daniel D. Daugherty]

On 6/11/2010 2:09 PM, Mandy Chung wrote:
> Daniel D. Daugherty wrote:
>> The theory is that there shouldn't be too many Logger objects in a 
>> normal system and
>> once they have been added, then this fix doesn't come into play.
>> I would be surprised if a real system had more than 100 Logger
>> objects.
>
> FYI.  AWT creates a number of loggers  (see 
> http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6880089)
>
> Running a simple Framer application (awt helloworld) with JDK 7 b70 
> creates 79 loggers on solaris-i586 and 34 loggers on windows-i586.  
> SwingSet2 creates a total of 85 loggers including a few non-awt ones 
> on solaris-i586 and 35 on windows-i586).

Thanks for the numbers. I still don't consider these numbers of
Loggers to be a lot. However, the point will be possible moot
depending on what happens with my investigation of ReferenceQueues
and Jeremy Manson's fix for this same problem.

Stay tuned!

Dan

P.S.
Mandy, did you also review the code?