Re: Memory leak in java.lang.Thread ?

[Archie Cobbs]

Archie Cobbs wrote:
> What happens when you run this program:
>
>     public class ThreadLeak {
>         public static void main(String[] args) {
>             while (true)
>                 new Thread();
>         }
>     }
>
> I get an OutOfMemoryError.

Now I realize that Sun's JDK has the same bug:

  http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4410846

Can we fix this simply by having the references from the
ThreadGroup -> Thread be via weak references?

I'm not sure why Sun hasn't done that already.

-Archie

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