[Webtest] Re: Memory and Potential Handle Leak with Build 454

[Lisa Crispin]

Awesome!  Thanks!  We'll try it right away.
-- Lisa


-------------- Original message from Marc Guillemot : -------------- 
> Hi Lisa, 
> 
> quick fix is now integrate and available for download. 
> 
> Marc. 
> 
> Lisa Crispin wrote: 
> > Hi Marc, 
> > Thanks for the explanation. This will help us. The solution sounds good. 
> > -- Lisa 
> > 
> > 
> > -------------- Original message from Marc Guillemot : -------------- 
> > 
> >>Hi Lisa, 
> >> 
> >>I was waiting for Siegried's answer to confirm what I have seen for my tests. 
> I 
> >>guess indeed that the 
> >>showhtmlparseroutput="true" is currently the cause of OutOfMemoryError when 
> >>running a lot of test. 
> >> 
> >>I will first commit a quick and dirty workaround allowing to continue using 
> >>showhtmlparseroutput="true" before 
> >>performing bigger changes on the architecture to allow webtests suites to 
> better 
> >>scale. 
> >> 
> >>What I see as the cause of the problem is that following occurs: 
> >>- ant instantiates the steps of a testSpec 
> >>- the steps are runned, some of the steps generate html errors and/or warnings 
> >>and hold these messages to make them 
> >>available for reporting 
> >>- when all steps of a testspec are finisched, the informations of the steps 
> are 
> >>used to generate a report 
> >>- next testSpec is runned (if any) 
> >>- when ant has finished, the steps are released. This is a feature of ant: as 
> a 
> >>target may be called more than 1 time in 
> >>a run, the target and all tasks it contains are only released at the very end. 
> >> 
> >>Therefore ALL html errors and warnings (as well as other data, but these are 
> the 
> >>ones that may really be numerous) are 
> >>hold in memory until ant finishes. 
> >> 
> >>The clean refactoring will consist to make each step generating a "result" 
> >>containing the data needed for the reports. 
> >>These results will be used at the end of a testSpec to generate the reports 
> and 
> >>won't live after the end of the 
> >>execution of a testSpec. 
> >> 
> >>Marc. 
> >> 
> >>Lisa Crispin wrote: 
> >> 
> >>>Hi Marc, 
> >>>Are you saying that showhtmlparseroutput should be set to false if you have a 
> >> 
> >>lot of tests and don't want to run out of memory? If you do that, how do you 
> >>debug if a test fails? 
> >> 
> >>>thanks, 
> >>>Lisa 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>>-------------- Original message from Marc Guillemot : -------------- 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>>>Hi Siegfried, 
> >>>> 
> >>>>> 
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> >>>>2nd question: do you have the showhtmlparseroutput config option on true? 
> >>>> 
> >>>>I think that this is the cause of the problem. It's a consequence of task 
> >>>>lifecycle and current webtest architecture. 
> >>>> 
> >>>>Marc. 
> >>>> 
> >>>>PS: what about my first question? ;-) 
> >>>> 
> >>>>Göschl,Siegfried wrote: 
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>>>Hi folks, 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>Running my regression test suite with build 454 fails with a 
> >>>> 
> >>>>OutOfMemoryException - it seems that there is no memory released. 
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>>>My 19 test cases consume more 160 MB RAM and 1300 handles (to set the right 
> >>>> 
> >>>>perspective my BEA WebLogic 8.1 server consumes 120 MB Ram and 2600 
> handles). 
> >> 
> >>I 
> >> 
> >>>>increased the maximum heap size but this might not work for a really large 
> >>>>regression test suite ... :-) 
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>>>Environment 
> >>>>>================================== 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>+) Windows XP 
> >>>>>+) Java 1.4.2_03b02 
> >>>>>+) Maven 1.0 rc1 & Ant 1.5.2 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>Thanks in advance 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>Siegfried Goeschl 
> >>>>> 
> >> 
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