Re: Memory Leak in swing

From:
"steve" <steve@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.gui
Date:
Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:28:37 GMT
Message-ID:
<eo2pkb02n58@news2.newsguy.com>
  To: comp.lang.java.gui
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:10:39 +0800, cakmak wrote
(in article <1168423839.306143.47480@77g2000hsv.googlegroups.com>):

I stripped-down my code, this also gathers surviving objects.
Application containing this code could not live long. (A thread wait of
1 sec. also does not help.) sorry for the long posting, but it is
really despairing!

public class LeakCheck {
    private int counter=0;
    private final String randomquery = "SELECT TOP 4 T00801PersonNr AS
PersonNr, T00801PersonID AS PersonID, T00801Nachname AS
Nachname, T00801Vorname AS Vorname FROM DBA.T00801Person ORDER BY
RAND()";

    private class Person extends Object {
        private javax.swing.ImageIcon icon;
        private String number;
        protected void finalize() throws Throwable {
            if(icon!=null){
                icon.getImage().flush();
                icon = null;
            }
            super.finalize();
        }
    }
    private ArrayList<Person> personList = new ArrayList<Person>();

    protected class RefreshTask extends TimerTask {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            random();
        }
    }
    public void go(){
        Timer updateTimer = new Timer("Refresh Task");
        updateTimer.schedule(new
RefreshTask(),0,2000);//instance,delay,interval
    }
    private Image LoadImageFromDB(String personnr){
        Image img = null;
        String filename = personnr + ".jpg";
        Connection con =
DbInterface.getinstance().getEtrainerDBConnection();
        Statement stmt;
        ResultSet rs;
        try {
            stmt = con.createStatement();
            String query =
Resources.getInstance().getDbProperties().getProperty("selectPersonImage");
            query = String.format(query, filename);
            rs=stmt.executeQuery(query);
            if(rs.next()){
                int len=rs.getInt(2);
                byte [] b=new byte[len];
                InputStream in = rs.getBinaryStream(3);
                try {
                    in.read(b);
                    in.close();
                    img=Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().createImage(b);
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
            rs.close();
            stmt.close();

        } catch (SQLException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return img;
    }
    public void random(){
        java.sql.Connection con =
DbInterface.getinstance().getSybaseDBConnection();
        try {
            if(con!=null && !con.isClosed()){
                java.sql.Statement stmt=null;
                try {
                    stmt = con.createStatement();
                    java.sql.ResultSet rs =
stmt.executeQuery(randomquery);
                    while(rs.next()){
                        Person person = new Person();
                        person.number = rs.getString("PersonNr");
                        Image img = LoadImageFromDB(person.number);
                        if(img !=null){
                            ImageIcon ico = new ImageIcon(img);
                            person.icon = ico;
                        }
                        personList.add(person);
                        System.out.println("Container size: " +
personList.size());
                        counter++;
                    }
                    if(counter%20 == 0){
                        personList.clear();
                        System.gc();//no need, but I force for this
example
                        System.out.println("Container cleared, size: "
+ personList.size());
                    }
                    rs.close();
                    stmt.close();
                } catch (SQLException ex) {
                    ex.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
        } catch (SQLException ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        LeakCheck leakCheck = new LeakCheck();
        leakCheck.go();
    }
}


The only thing I can see is that you keep opening connections "con" inside
your random(), which is inside your timer task.

I.E you fire your timer, do the random(), which opens your connection.
Then you get your picture, closing:
 rs, in & stmt
 but you do not close the "con" before exiting.
then you re-fire your timer & reopen a connection.

if it is anything like the oracle drivers, then that is always good for a
laugh & memory leaks.

in reality you should open your "con" outside, and keep re-using the
connection until it is finished then you should close it.

also if your database is a bit slow, you could well be re-entering the code,
without it being syncronised.

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