Hi all. Working on Update Tomcat 8.0.30 to Tomcat 9.0.14 I faced with a memory leak issue. The application failed after some hours with the next exception:
*Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded* The memory was completely consumed and the garbage collector was struggling all the time trying to free it: [image: 1.png] Heap Dump contained 120 instances of org.apache.catalina.connector.Response each consumed 10Mb of memory: [image: image.png] I found out that the next Tomcat version 9.0.16 contains a fix for a bunch of memory leak issues. Upgrade to 9.0.16 just doubled hour application worked then it fails with the same issue. However, it could just be a temporary load decrease. I tried to use Tomcat 8.5.16 that works fine with another module. Another module heap dump didn't contain any instances of org.apache.catalina.connector.Response even after more than 116 hours. However, Tomcat 8.5.16 didn’t solve the problem. The application failed with the same error and heap dump looked the same. Then I looked into the heap dump of the application working on Tomcat 8.0.30. It contained instances of org.apache.catalina.connector.Response as well. But their size was much smaller: [image: image.png] It looks like there is a memory leak issue with org.apache.catalina.connector.Response in all Tomcat versions (8, 8.5, 9) with the only difference in the size of OutputBuffer which is a part of Response: [image: image.png] Here are GC roots of Response instance: [image: image.png] Could you please give a piece of advice on how to manage with this? Thanks, Andrei Mozgo
