Do you eventually run OOM?

On Sunday, February 28, 2016, Asaf Mesika <asaf.mes...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm seeing slow off-heap memory leak in production.
> I've managed to recreated the scenario in a testing environment - I have
> one ZooKeeper node and one Kafka Broker (running on same machine). I have
> one java process which runs a thread which constantly writes to Kafka using
> 16 KafkaProducer.
> I see that the resident memory of my java process is slowly decreasing
> (roughly 250mb every 15 min). When running GC it cleans the heap to 730mb
> roughly but resident remains high: 2.3gb and increasing steadily. So from
> that I presume it's a leak of off-heap memory.
>
> I'm little puzzled here since I haven't seen any usage of
> ByteBuffer.allocateDirect() in the new client code, but I though I'll check
> with the audience in case you are aware of any issue that might cause it?
> I'm chasing this leak for several days, and managed to track it down to the
> code writing to Kafka, so I'm a little desperate  :) any help will do.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Asaf
>


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