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[CURATOR-240] Severe memory leak in TreeCache when path does not exist #760

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When creating a TreeCache, if the path supplied does not exist in Zookeeper then the heap is quickly exhausted. The problem appears to be instances of org.apache.curator.framework.imps.NamespaceWatcher.

Try running the following test:

package org.apache.curator.framework.recipes.cache;

import org.apache.curator.framework.CuratorFramework;
import org.apache.curator.framework.CuratorFrameworkFactory;
import org.apache.curator.framework.recipes.cache.TreeCache;
import org.apache.curator.retry.RetryOneTime;
import org.apache.curator.test.TestingServer;

public class TreeCacheLeak {

<span class="code-keyword">public</span> <span class="code-keyword">static</span> void main(<span class="code-object">String</span>[] args) <span class="code-keyword">throws</span> Exception {

TestingServer server = new TestingServer();

final CuratorFramework curatorFramework = CuratorFrameworkFactory.newClient(server.getConnectString(), new RetryOneTime(1));
curatorFramework.start();

final TreeCache cache = new TreeCache(curatorFramework, "/foo/bar/baz");
cache.start();

try {
while (true) {
Thread.sleep(1000);
}
} finally {
cache.close();
server.close();
}
}

}

Launch the class then connect e.g. jvisualvm. You'll see the heap growing and if you watch for a few minutes then take a heap dump, you'll see millions of instances of org.apache.curator.framework.imps.NamespaceWatcher are present.


Originally reported by japher, imported from: Severe memory leak in TreeCache when path does not exist
  • assignee: dragonsinth
  • status: Resolved
  • priority: Critical
  • resolution: Fixed
  • resolved: 2015-07-31T22:21:06+01:00
  • imported: 2025-01-21

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