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  1. Solr
  2. SOLR-1953

It may be possible for temporary files to accumulator until the Solr process is shut down

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    • Bug
    • Status: Resolved
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 1.4.1, 1.5
    • 6.4, 7.0
    • update

    Description

      While researching SOLR-1951, the behavior of commons-fileupload in handling multipart form posts came into question. commons-fileupload creates a temporary file for the main content area of such posts, and purportedly has a background thread which cleans up these files. However, Mark Miller discovered that the javadoc in this matter may be incorrect, and that commons-fileupload may in fact just be adding files to the JVM's list of files needing cleanup on exit.

      If so, this will show up in two ways: first, temporary files will accumulate in the java.io.tmpdir area. Second, non-heap memory for the JVM will slowly increase over time (since the file pointers the JVM tracks in this way are not kept in the java heap).

      I will attach a potential fix; however, this ticket should be viewed as a workitem for the need for further research in this area.

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        1. SOLR-1953.patch
          0.7 kB
          Karl Wright
        2. SOLR-1953.patch
          2 kB
          Mark Miller
        3. SOLR-1953.patch
          11 kB
          Mark Miller

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              markrmiller@gmail.com Mark Miller
              kwright@metacarta.com Karl Wright
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