I recently re-wrote 10MinuteMail, my secure temporary email service, updating it from Seam 2 and JBoss 4.2 to Deltaspike and Wildfly 10. Unfortunately I noticed a memory leak in the JVM. During beta testing, the JVM heap usage would slowly grow, over 1-2 weeks until it reached an OOM (out of memory condition).
I performed analysis on heap dumps taken at various stages of memory consumption and discovered that the issue was HttpSessionImpl objects being held onto by the com.sun.faces.application.WebappLifecycleListener’s activeSessions property. Since 10MinuteMail does some “manual” session expiration and management, and the new application is AJAX heavy, I figured I was doing something wrong. But thanks to some great support on the JBoss.org forums, I soon learned that there is a bug in the Undertow sub-system that ships with Wildfly 10.0.0.FINAL which keeps old sessions around, causing a memory leak – [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][UNDERTOW-657] HttpSession never removed from activeSessions – JBoss Issue Tracker
The fix is to replace the Undertow modules that come with Wildfly 10 with the latest stable release versions. You can find more details here – https://developer.jboss.org/message/959286#959286
Now my application works as expected with no memory leak or abnormal numbers of session objects.[/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]
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