[QPID-3743] [Java Broker] Remove catching of Exception during metadata retrieval in BDB store

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.15
• Component/s: Broker-J
• Assignee: Robbie Gemmell
• Reporter: Robert Godfrey
• Created: 10/Jan/12 17:50
• Updated: 11/Feb/15 20:06
• Resolved: 17/Feb/12 12:02

Description

Occurred while using BDB store with more messages than could be held in RAM (1 million 1Kb messages in a 2Gb heap on a 64-bit VM).

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1. Unhandled Exception java.lang.NullPointerException in Thread pool-3-thread-16
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2. Exiting
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   java.lang.NullPointerException
   at org.apache.qpid.server.message.MessageTransferMessage.getExpiration(MessageTransferMessage.java:89)
   at org.apache.qpid.server.queue.QueueEntryImpl.expired(QueueEntryImpl.java:151)
   at org.apache.qpid.server.queue.SimpleAMQQueue.getNextAvailableEntry(SimpleAMQQueue.java:1846)
   at org.apache.qpid.server.queue.SimpleAMQQueue.attemptDelivery(SimpleAMQQueue.java:1781)
   at org.apache.qpid.server.queue.SimpleAMQQueue.processQueue(SimpleAMQQueue.java:1964)
   at org.apache.qpid.server.queue.QueueRunner.run(QueueRunner.java:77)
   at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
   at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)