[BATIK-442] Memory leak when using embedded SVG fonts

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.5
• Component/s: GVT Text
• Environment: Operating System: All; Platform: PC
• Assignee: Batik Developer's Mailing list
• Reporter: Mario Cormier
• Created: 22/Dec/03 04:32
• Updated: 23/Dec/03 06:31
• Resolved: 16/Nov/04 19:05

Description

We have this simple application where we have a time display
(hours:minutes:seconds:hundreths) that we update 100 times per second (as a
test) using the SVG DOM from Java. It worked out fine (well, except for a high
CPU usage - we're using an overlay in the actual application), until we tried
using an embedded SVG font (exported from Corel Draw). After that change, the
application invariably crashed in less than a minute with an OutOfMemoryError.
The application memory usage grew roughly by 1MB/sec, until it couldn't grow any
more. Reverting to a non-SVG font eliminated the problem completely.