Re: Memory leak

From:
Erik <erikgast@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:56:14 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
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On 20 apr, 10:46, Erik <erikg...@gmail.com> wrote:

On 20 apr, 01:49, Martin Gregorie <mar...@see.sig.for.address> wrote:

On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:11:51 -0700, Erik wrote:

On 20 apr, 00:39, Martin Gregorie <mar...@see.sig.for.address> wrote:

On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:09:46 -0700, Erik wrote:

                byte[] data = new byte[readSize];


I notice that this buffer is only initialised once and has a greater scope
than data buffer needs in your code. I also notice that you've capitalised
your method names, which is confusing.

What does ReadFile() do? Are you quite sure it isn't extending data?

--
martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. |
org | Zappa fan & glider pilot


The ReadFile method:

protected int ReadFile(byte[] data)throws IOException{
           int dataRead = 0;

           try {
                   dataRead = fileInput[currentFile].read(data);
           } catch (IOException e) {
                   throw e;
           }
           if(dataRead == -1){
                   fileInput[currentFile].close();
                   return -1;
           }

           return dataRead;
   }


There's still a lot of stuff you're not telling us, such as what type of
objects make up fileInput[].

--
martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. |
org | Zappa fan & glider pilot


Sorry :)

fileInput is a DataInputStream[]
FileData and Message are just classes to transport the data, they just
hold the data.


I think I found the problem. The messages with the byte[] data are
send across a network
using a ObjectOutputStream. I think that the ObjectOutputStream caches
the data. I thought I
had fixed that problem by calling the flush method of the
OutputStream, but apparently this
is not working. So how do I clear the cached data of the
ObjectOutputStream?

Thanks

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