Manisha,
On 12/27/24 2:45 AM, Manisha Subramanian wrote:
Details of our application are given below:
OS: RHEL 8.x [OpenSSL version: 1.1.1]
Configuration: We're using Tomcat as an HTTP Server, but it is embedded as part
of our application
Java version: Java 8u381
We're using Apache Tomcat 9.0.86 and are considering an update to 9.0.98.
During the update, we noticed this commit, where we saw a System.gc() call:
Avoid possible crashes with OpenSSL * apache/tomcat@bb4a5a0 *
GitHub<https://github.com/apache/tomcat/commit/bb4a5a08603d8e1d67b4249fe8c634571a6ec852>.
If we choose to stop our HTTP server [and the JVM chooses to honor this
System.gc() call] it will not just affect Tomcat, but the entire JVM and may
cause issues to our application.
The commit message says it'll occur mostly with the Tomcat test suite but the
impacts of the gc call may affect the entire application.
I would think that taking down Tomcat and/or its connectors (which is
what you would be doing when AprLifecycleListener.terminateAPR is
called) would have a much bigger impact on your application (like
STOPPING it) than requesting garbage-collection (which happens all the
time).
We were wondering why this System.gc() was added. Request you to share your
views.
The gc() call was added to attempt to force the cleanup of resources
that have an impact on native-library resources before terminating the
native library (OpenSSL). It is intended to prevent native crashes
(which typically terminate the JVM) in some edge cases.
-chris
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