Indeed, that I did. I ran it through jvisualvm and it's definitely
growing objects. It's odd though, because I don't see any reason why
any of the namespaces I'm reloading would do that. It's not any one
namespace, but all of them together. That's why I was thinking that it
may have possibly been some implicit weirdness with reload.

On Sep 2, 8:29 pm, Chouser <chou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Rayne <disciplera...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've got a curious little bit of a memory leak of sorts that I'm
> > trying to narrow down.
>
> > I have an application (betcha can guess what it is if you know me from
> > IRC :>) that, in order to reload plugins, requires each of them with
> > the :reload option whenever you ask them to be reloaded.
>
> > Each of these plugins calls a macro that defines a set of defmethods
> > for a multimethod in a namespace that never does get reloaded. They
> > also define a single function that isn't a method.
>
> > Whenever these 'plugins' are reloaded (there are about 20 of them),
> > the memory my application uses is raised by about 3MB, as monitored
> > with htop. It's very consistent and always raises 2-3MB each time. The
> > less plugins being reloaded, the less dramatic the memory jump.
>
> > Now, my question is: can require with :reload a lot of namespaces like
> > this cause this sort of thing to happen? I mostly just need to know
> > whether or not I'm going in the wrong direction. I've never had this
> > sort of problem before.
>
> > If so, are there any steps I can take to keep memory from building up
> > like this?
>
> I'd recommend using a memory profiling tool that lists the object
> counts by class.  I think jvisualvm that comes with Sun's JDK
> will do it, and I know yourkit will.  Check your counts before
> a :reload and again after -- might give a good clue as to what's
> going on.
>
> --Chouserhttp://joyofclojure.com/

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