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| CacheAdapter.inverseCrossReferencer and Memory Leaks [message #690216] |
Wed, 29 June 2011 03:45  |
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Hi @all,
I am struggling against some memory issues, and I have been analyzing for several days now. As far as I can see, using MAT, the problem could be caused by CacheAdapter (i.e. its inverseCrossReferencer) which is not removing old resources.
I have coded a (graphical) UML editor which uses EMF/UML2 internally. Whenever I close an old model and reload it, I waste about 30 MBytes (a small model) which is far to much for ignoring this problem.
Learning from other threads on this board and own investigations, I already use the following code in order to unload my resources and resource set (BTW, there is a regular UML model and several UML profiles in my resource set):
while(getResourceSet().getResources().size() > 0) {
Resource res = getResourceSet().getResources().get(0);
res.eAdapters().clear();
res.unload();
getResourceSet().getResources().remove(res);
}
CacheAdapter.INSTANCE.clear();
I found the following threads or bug entries within this forum about a similar topic. However, bugs seem to be fixed and the issues solved.
http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/m/624261
http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/m/647513
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=197079
Now, I need to get some background information. I already debugged into sources, but sorry, I cannot really figure out the mechanism why (or how) the InverseCrossReferencer does not remove old stuff when unloading. I also haven't found a way to reset the state completely or to use another CacheAdapter, which could also solve the problem. Maybe, CacheAdapter$inverseCrossReferencer is not the only problem (I am still wondering if I can trust MAT), so your experience would help. Please tell me scenarios in which clearing the cache or unloading could fail or even tutorials on unloading.
Thanks in adavance!
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| Re: CacheAdapter.inverseCrossReferencer and Memory Leaks [message #690508 is a reply to message #690216] |
Wed, 29 June 2011 11:45  |
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Kirsten,
Kenn is in the best position to answer but if you want to investigate
yourself, ECrossReferenceAdapter.unsetTarget(Resource) and
unset(EObject) should be getting called for all your resources and all
the objects they contain. That should result in things being cleaned
up. It will be useful to use the debugger to inspect what's left in the
map after you've clean up your old resource set...
On 29/06/2011 12:45 AM, Kirsten M. Z. wrote:
> Hi @all,
>
> I am struggling against some memory issues, and I have been analyzing
> for several days now. As far as I can see, using MAT, the problem
> could be caused by CacheAdapter (i.e. its inverseCrossReferencer)
> which is not removing old resources.
> I have coded a (graphical) UML editor which uses EMF/UML2 internally.
> Whenever I close an old model and reload it, I waste about 30 MBytes
> (a small model) which is far to much for ignoring this problem.
>
> Learning from other thread in this forum and own inverstigations, I
> already use the following code in order to unload my resources and
> resource set (BTW, there is a regular UML model and several UML
> profiles in my resource set):
>
>
> while(getResourceSet().getResources().size() > 0) {
> Resource res = getResourceSet().getResources().get(0);
> res.eAdapters().clear();
> res.unload();
>
> getResourceSet().getResources().remove(res);
> }
> CacheAdapter.INSTANCE.clear();
>
>
> I found the following threads or bug entries within this forum about a
> similar topic. However, bugs seem to be fixed and the issues solved.
>
> http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/m/624261
> http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/m/647513
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=197079
>
> Now, I need to get some background information. I already debugged
> into sources, but sorry, I cannot really figure out the mechanism why
> (or how) the InverseCrossReferencer does not remove old stuff when
> unloading. I also haven't found a way to complete reset the state or
> to use another CacheAdapter, which could also solve the problem.
> Maybe, CacheAdapter$inverseCrossReferencer is not the only problem (I
> am still wondering if I can trust MAT), so your experience would help.
> Please tell me scenarios in which clearing the cache or unloading
> could fail or even tutorials on unloading.
>
> Thanks in adavance!
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| Re: CacheAdapter.inverseCrossReferencer and Memory Leaks [message #690678 is a reply to message #690216] |
Wed, 29 June 2011 21:19 |
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Kirsten,
Unloading all resources in the resource set should be sufficient. The
sample UML editor does the same and I haven't seen these issues:
public void dispose() {
disposeGen();
for (Resource resource : editingDomain.getResourceSet().getResources()) {
resource.unload();
}
}
Are you sure there are no other references to the objects in your model?
Kenn
On 11-06-29 3:45 AM, Kirsten M. Z. wrote:
> Hi @all,
>
> I am struggling against some memory issues, and I have been analyzing
> for several days now. As far as I can see, using MAT, the problem could
> be caused by CacheAdapter (i.e. its inverseCrossReferencer) which is not
> removing old resources.
> I have coded a (graphical) UML editor which uses EMF/UML2 internally.
> Whenever I close an old model and reload it, I waste about 30 MBytes (a
> small model) which is far to much for ignoring this problem.
>
> Learning from other thread in this forum and own inverstigations, I
> already use the following code in order to unload my resources and
> resource set (BTW, there is a regular UML model and several UML profiles
> in my resource set):
>
>
> while(getResourceSet().getResources().size() > 0) {
> Resource res = getResourceSet().getResources().get(0);
> res.eAdapters().clear();
> res.unload();
>
> getResourceSet().getResources().remove(res);
> }
> CacheAdapter.INSTANCE.clear();
>
>
> I found the following threads or bug entries within this forum about a
> similar topic. However, bugs seem to be fixed and the issues solved.
>
> http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/m/624261
> http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/m/647513
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=197079
>
> Now, I need to get some background information. I already debugged into
> sources, but sorry, I cannot really figure out the mechanism why (or
> how) the InverseCrossReferencer does not remove old stuff when
> unloading. I also haven't found a way to complete reset the state or to
> use another CacheAdapter, which could also solve the problem. Maybe,
> CacheAdapter$inverseCrossReferencer is not the only problem (I am still
> wondering if I can trust MAT), so your experience would help. Please
> tell me scenarios in which clearing the cache or unloading could fail or
> even tutorials on unloading.
>
> Thanks in adavance!
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| Re: CacheAdapter.inverseCrossReferencer and Memory Leaks [message #898425 is a reply to message #690216] |
Thu, 26 July 2012 07:27 |
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Hi Kirsten, I have the same problem. A little less than 30 mb... but still a problem when I perform batch operations.
Did you managed to solve this problem?
The CacheAdapter has a clear method, I will try to find a way to call it.
My scenario is much more complicated because I use GEF and I'm pretty sure there are "lost adapters" around. Neverthless, MAT points the leak to the CacheAdapter and other UML related classes instead of any GEF, Draw2d, or SWT objects, my usual suspects... In fact, they are not in MAT list of suspects, to my surprise.
it must be the Butler! 
Hope there is a solution to this...
By the way, just opening the UML, doing some read and disposing does not cause this problem. Without adding adapters, my batch operations works well with over 500 models, just checking if some class exists, and some stereotype is used or not.
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| Re: CacheAdapter.inverseCrossReferencer and Memory Leaks [message #898465 is a reply to message #898425] |
Thu, 26 July 2012 08:30 |
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Hi
Ecore and UML can have very highly recursive references, so that a
single parasitic reference to any part of the model causes everything to
be locked in.
Simple operations such as Resource.unload() are not sufficient to clear
the adapters.
In my experience, trying to get OCL leak friendly, you need to add code
to actively null out references that you understand so that you are
eventually left with the references that need resolution.
You might want to use an approach such as Xtext's
org.eclipse.xtext.junit4.GlobalRegistries that ensures that a variety
iof EMF and Xtext globals are nulled. I have found that user entries in
the EValidator.Registry are a particularly problematic sort of
persistent references.
Regards
Ed Willink
On 26/07/2012 12:27, Alexandre Torres wrote:
> Hi Kirsten, I have the same problem. A little less than 30 mb... but
> still a problem when I perform batch operations. Did you managed to
> solve this problem?
> The CacheAdapter has a clear method, I will try to find a way to call it.
> My scenario is much more complicated because I use GEF and I'm pretty
> sure there are "lost adapters" around. Neverthless, MAT points the
> leak to the CacheAdapter and other UML related classes instead of any
> GEF, Draw2d, or SWT objects, my usual suspects... In fact, they are
> not in MAT list of suspects, to my surprise. it must be the Butler! :)
>
> Hope there is a solution to this...
> By the way, just opening the UML, doing some read and disposing does
> not cause this problem. Without adding adapters, my batch operations
> works well with over 500 models, just checking if some class exists,
> and some stereotype is used or not.
>
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>
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| Re: CacheAdapter.inverseCrossReferencer and Memory Leaks [message #898575 is a reply to message #898512] |
Thu, 26 July 2012 11:56 |
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Hi, Alexandre,
You don't need to iterate the contents of a resource to remove adapters
from every element. The resource will do that for you when it is
unloaded, so you can avoid an unnecessary walk of the contents tree.
Cheers,
Christian
On 2012-07-26 13:56:58 +0000, Alexandre Torres said:
> Thank you Ed!
> I just discovered something amazing.
> I moved each execution of my batch into Runnable objects. Each model is
> loaded, opened, processed (image exporting), and closed in a thread
> separeted from the main eclipse (using
> Display.getCurrent().asyncExec...).
> This gives time to the GEF/SWT whatever release the locks that are
> holding my UML elements, in some obscure background process. The speed
> is not great, but it is not a problem for me - and it has a constant
> speed. The memory leakage has droped to manageble level (few kbs/model).
> Another thing I did was to call System.gc after disposing the stuff.
> Just becouse JVM is lazy on GC.
> And the CacheAdapter is really innocent after all. Doing this to ensure
> clean up:
>
> //for each resource... res.eAdapters.clear(); // empty res adapters.
> for (TreeIterator<EObject> ti=res.getAllContents();ti.hasNext();) {
> EObject eo = ti.next();
> //remove any lost adapter
> eo.eAdapters().removeAll(eo.eAdapters());
> }
> res.unload();
> //...and in the end:
> resourceSet.eAdapters.clear();
>
>
> Thanks!
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