I'm working on a Java application with Swing-based GUI. The application uses JTextPane
to output log messages as follows: 1) truncate existing text to keep total text size under the limit; 2) append new text; 3) scroll to the end (actual logic is slightly different, but it's irrelevant here).
I was using Eclipse with JVM Monitor to determine reasonable text size limit and found significant memory leak. I tried to remove UndoableEditListener
s from the underlying document and disable automatic caret position updates (by changing the position explicitly with DefaultCaret.NEVER_UPDATE
and JTextPane.setCaretPosition(int)
), but without success. Finally, I decided to disable changing caret position completely, and this fixed the leak.
I have two questions:
Is there an issue with my code? If yes, how can I change it to accomplish the task?
Is it a Swing/JVM bug? If yes, how can I report it?
Details:
Here is SSCCE: GUI with textPane and two buttons, for small and stress tests. FIX
and FIXXX
flags correspond to my attempts to fix memory leak.
package memleak;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.event.UndoableEditListener;
import javax.swing.text.*;
class TestMain
{
private JTextPane textPane;
// try to fix memory leak
private static final boolean FIX = false;
// disable caret updates completely
private static final boolean FIXXX = false;
// number of strings to append
private static final int ITER_SMALL = 20;
private static final int ITER_HUGE = 1000000;
// limit textPane content
private static final int TEXT_SIZE_MAX = 100;
TestMain()
{
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
JPanel panel = new JPanel();
textPane = new JTextPane();
textPane.setEditable(false);
if (FIX)
{
tryToFixMemory();
} // end if FIX
JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(textPane);
scrollPane.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(100, 100) );
panel.add(scrollPane);
JButton buttonSmall = new JButton("small test");
buttonSmall.addActionListener(new ButtonHandler(ITER_SMALL) );
panel.add(buttonSmall);
JButton buttonStress = new JButton("stress test");
buttonStress.addActionListener(new ButtonHandler(ITER_HUGE) );
panel.add(buttonStress);
frame.add(panel);
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.pack();
frame.setVisible(true);
} // end constructor
public static void main(String[] args)
{
@SuppressWarnings("unused")
TestMain testMain = new TestMain();
} // end main
private void append(String s)
{
Document doc = textPane.getDocument();
try
{
int extraLength = doc.getLength() + s.length() - TEXT_SIZE_MAX;
if (extraLength > 0)
{
doc.remove(0, extraLength);
} // end if extraLength
doc.insertString(doc.getLength(), s, null);
if (FIX && !FIXXX)
{ // MEMORY LEAK HERE
textPane.setCaretPosition(doc.getLength() );
} // end if FIX
}
catch (Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
System.exit(1);
} // end try
} // end method append
private void tryToFixMemory()
{
// disable caret updates
Caret caret = textPane.getCaret();
if (caret instanceof DefaultCaret)
{
( (DefaultCaret) caret).setUpdatePolicy(
DefaultCaret.NEVER_UPDATE);
} // end if DefaultCaret
// remove registered UndoableEditListeners if any
Document doc = textPane.getDocument();
if (doc instanceof AbstractDocument)
{
UndoableEditListener[] undoListeners =
( (AbstractDocument) doc).getUndoableEditListeners();
if (undoListeners.length > 0)
{
for (UndoableEditListener undoListener : undoListeners)
{
doc.removeUndoableEditListener(undoListener);
} // end for undoListener
} // end if undoListeners
} // end if AbstractDocument
} // end method tryToFixMemory
private class ButtonHandler implements ActionListener
{
private final int iter;
ButtonHandler(int iter)
{
this.iter = iter;
} // end constructor
@Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
{
for (int i = 0; i < iter; i++)
{
append(String.format("%10d\n", i) );
} // end for i
} // end method actionPerformed
} // end class ButtonHandler
} // end class TestMain
JVM was from official Oracle Java SE Development Kit 8u45 for Linux x64. All tests were done with -Xmx100m
limit.
Both flags are false
:
Small test
Works as expected:
Stress test
GUI freezes at an intermediate point:
Memory is leaking:
At some point there is no memory left and I got the following error:
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded
at java.util.Formatter.parse(Formatter.java:2560)
at java.util.Formatter.format(Formatter.java:2501)
at java.util.Formatter.format(Formatter.java:2455)
at java.lang.String.format(String.java:2928)
at memleak.TestMain$ButtonHandler.actionPerformed(TestMain.java:117)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2022)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2346)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:402)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:259)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(BasicButtonListener.java:252)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6525)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3324)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:6290)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2234)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4881)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2292)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4703)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4898)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:4533)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:4462)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2278)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2750)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4703)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:758)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(EventQueue.java:97)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:709)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:703)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:75)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:86)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:731)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:729)
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded
at javax.swing.text.GlyphPainter1.modelToView(GlyphPainter1.java:147)
at javax.swing.text.GlyphView.modelToView(GlyphView.java:653)
at javax.swing.text.CompositeView.modelToView(CompositeView.java:265)
at javax.swing.text.BoxView.modelToView(BoxView.java:484)
at javax.swing.text.ParagraphView$Row.modelToView(ParagraphView.java:900)
at javax.swing.text.CompositeView.modelToView(CompositeView.java:265)
at javax.swing.text.BoxView.modelToView(BoxView.java:484)
at javax.swing.text.CompositeView.modelToView(CompositeView.java:265)
at javax.swing.text.BoxView.modelToView(BoxView.java:484)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTextUI$RootView.modelToView(BasicTextUI.java:1509)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTextUI.modelToView(BasicTextUI.java:1047)
at javax.swing.text.DefaultCaret.repaintNewCaret(DefaultCaret.java:1308)
at javax.swing.text.DefaultCaret$1.run(DefaultCaret.java:1287)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:311)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:756)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(EventQueue.java:97)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:709)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:703)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:75)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:726)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:201)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:116)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:105)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:82)
Exception in thread "RMI TCP Connection(idle)" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded
at java.lang.Thread.getName(Thread.java:1135)
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run(TCPTransport.java:677)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Detailed memory statistics show very high counts for java.awt.event.InvocationEvent
, sun.awt.EventQueueItem
, and javax.swing.text.DefaultCaret$1
(absent in the fixed version):
Setting FIX = true
did not improve the situation.
Both flags are true
:
Small test
Now shows that the caret position is not updated:
Stress test
Works and has no indication of memory leak: