IdP 2.3.8 PermGen leak?

[Cantor, Scott]

On 4/22/14, 2:47 PM, "Eric Stein" <steine at locustec.com> wrote:

>I'm seeing a PermGen leak in the 2.3.8 IdP. I'm running it inside Tomcat
>6.0.36. When I stop and then start the application, JVisualVM is
>reporting that the old WebappClassLoader instance isn't unloading. The
>nearest GC root is a com.mchange.v2.async.ThreadPoolAsynchronousRunner.
>I'm losing about 15 MB per refresh of the IdP.

For the record, we don't really support reloading.

> Is there any way to either (a) configure c3p0 through the IdP so that it
>doesn't leak memory like a sieve, or (b) use some other thread pool
>instead?

Configure a container-managed data source and then you can use any data
source you prefer. I use dbcp.

-- scott