[Soot-list] memory leak when working with Soot

[dingsun]

Hi, Eric      I finally solved this problem by updating my eclipse from 3.4 to 3.6.1 . It is possible some system files of the version 3.4 on my PC are damaged. Sorry for the trouble. 
Best Regards,Ding Sun 

> From: bodden at st.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de
> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:38:04 +0100
> Subject: Re: [Soot-list] memory leak when working with Soot
> To: xyz031702 at hotmail.com
> 
> Hello Ding Sun.
> 
> This sounds pretty odd. It's normal that Soot uses lots of memory,
> certainly more than 1GB on large programs, but this memory should
> always be freed when you close the corresponding virtual machine. Did
> you try to assign more than 1GB of RAM or to use a different VM?
> 
> Eric
> 
> 2011/1/26 dingsun <xyz031702 at hotmail.com>:
> > Dear Sir/Madam
> >       I have used Soot to generate CFG and paths for a long time. It works
> > very well until recently I used it for some big test systems.(Like apache
> > tomcat). It consumed more than 1G memory and later the system hang there.
> > Even I close my program ,close Eclipse, kill every alive java
> > process(windows XP , eclipse 3.5, 4G physical memory),  the memory is still
> > occupied.  The only solution is I have to reboot the PC.
> >     I used tool like Eclipse Memory Analyzer to check the run time memory
> > status. The tool told me the classLoader accumulatively generate lots of
> > instances. But I still dont know how to solve it.
> >    & nbsp;Is there any hint and suggestions on this problem? Thanks very
> > much!
> > Best Regards,
> > Ding Sun
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