> From: Leon Rosenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: PermGen space > > The problem is the cyclic dependence between the Class object, the > ASingletonImpl object and the according ClassLoader. This way nothing > can be freed by the gc.
Cyclic references are not a problem for any garbage collector released in the last six or seven years. Unless there's another reference somewhere to a member of the cyclic set, GC will never see any of the objects that are referring to each other, and they become disposable. The link given by Michael Fortin (which is also in the Tomcat FAQ) has real reasons: http://opensource.atlassian.com/confluence/spring/pages/viewpage.action? pageId=2669 - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]