Re: [JBoss-user] Where has my memory gone?

[Matt J. <joh...@wh...>]

To elaborate on Steve's comments, we were experiencing very similar 
symptoms to what you describe, and we resolved the problem initially by 
upgrading to Oracle 9.2.0.2.0 - there was a memory leak in the HP/UX 
JDBC OCI library in 9.2.0.1.0.  The first week was nice and quiet, but 
since then we've been getting intermittent crashes in Production - only 
now we can't reproduce it in testing.

This particular bug appears to have been specific to HP/UX and another 
platform (don't have the info to hand, but I know it wasn't Solaris), 
but I would strongly recommend you take a closer look at Oracle if 
you're using the OCI driver, or at any other JNI components if you're 
not - the symptoms really do smack of a native code leak.  It makes it 
less likely to be Oracle because you've got the problem using two 
different major versions (8i and 9i), but you never know...

We've had great troubles diagnosing our problem because none of the 
profilers are able to provide much info on what's going on in JNI land.

When you say you use 8i in dev and 9i on your servers, which specific 
versions of these do you use (both client and server side)?  You 
mentioned in another mail that you use classes12.zip - which Oracle 
release did you source this from, and do you use different versions in 
dev/prod, or the same?



Matt

Stephen Coy wrote:

> Are you using the OCI driver?
>
> We're experiencing similar problems at our production site, but can't 
> reproduce it in testing. Our hardware is running HP-UX and the HP JVM.
>
> The current theory is that the version of the OCI client software we 
> have on site is leaking memory in native code.
>
> Steve Coy
>
> On Friday, March 28, 2003, at 09:44  PM, David Rocks wrote:
>
>> I am having a desperate problem with my JBoss app server. It seems to 
>> be leaking memory all over the place but after a week of debugging 
>> and JProbing I can just not find the problem. My architecture is 
>> session beans that link onto Entity beans that can have dependant 
>> objects. a la Composite entity design pattern, nothing radical. It 
>> seems that when we make a call to the session layer to create an 
>> entity with dependants from data in our oracle db then the server mem 
>> jumps 5 meg and never goes down. Keep going and we crash. We 
>> originally started with 2.4.4 but moving up to 3.0.6 did not seem to 
>> make a change. We develop on win 2000 but the leak still seems to be 
>> there on our Solaris servers.  We use oracle 8i in our dev 
>> environment and 9i on our servers. I have used JDK 1.3.1 and 1.4. It 
>> just seems to point to our code but where I just can't find. I have 
>> been through the code making sure that we close all of our 
>> connections to the database 20 times. nulling references as well.
>>
>> I got JProbe to analyse the JVM that the app server runs on and it 
>> claims that the level of objects remains the same and the memory they 
>> take up is the same giving me the impression that is all OK. Looking 
>> at task manger tells a different story with the memory zooming up 
>> until the OutOfMemory Exception occurs. top on our Solaris servers 
>> shows that the memory never seems to be recovering as well.
>>
>> If anybody can share a thought on why this is happening please feel 
>> free to share this with me. Even the obvious clue would be great. I 
>> have tried everything I know.
>>
>> David Rocks
>>
>> Software Development Manager
>> dav...@co...
>