Antw: LuaJava memoryLeak?

["Thomas Praxl" <TPRAXL@...>]

Well..

I searched the java-source of luajava for a hint and noticed that it lacks a method to close the luastate explicitely.
The only method that closes the luastate is "finalize".
Well.. as "finalize" is not guaranteed to be called when the java-garbage-collector runs, the memory is not guaranteed to be freed.
So I added a public method "close" to luaState.
Greetings and thanks for Lua and luajava,



Thomas Praxl

HESSISCHER RUNDFUNK
Multimedia; Forschung und Strategie
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60320 Frankfurt am Main
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>>> TPRAXL@hr-online.de 03/24 11:38  >>>
Hello,

I m new to this list. 
A few years ago I worked with Lua. For some time now I unsubscribed from the list, as I didn t need Lua anymore.

I m developing a converter for a tag-language related to BBCode and need to plug in scripts that define the behaviour of a tag.
For that reason I remembered Lua and embedded LuaJava from Thiago.

Now I noticed some kind of memory leak in my application on my local tomcat.
I guess that has something to do with not closing a luaState created with 

LuaStateFactory.newLuaState().

I searched the API-Doc for a possibility to call lua_close from Java but the only thing I found was 

LuaStateFactory.remove(int idx)

The API-Doc says "when a new state is created, it is pushed into a state list and it s index is returned". Well.. I can t find a possibility to get the index of a newly created state.

My code looks similar to this:

LuaState l = LuaStateFactory.newLuaState();
l.pushJavaFunction(new ObjectCreator(l));
l.pushJavaFunction(new URLInclude(l));
l.doFile(pathToScript+"/Tag_"+tagName.toLowerCase()+fileExt);
l.getGlobal("replace");
l.call(0,1);
String result = l.toString(-1);
LuaStateFactory.removeLuaState(0);

But calling this code for 1000 times leads to a memory leak between 20 and 40 MB.

Can anybody help?

Thanks in advance,






Thomas Praxl

HESSISCHER RUNDFUNK
Multimedia; Forschung und Strategie
(hr-online)
Bertramstraße 8
60320 Frankfurt am Main
-----------------------------------------------------
E-Mail:   tpraxl@hr-online.de 
Telefon:  (069) 155 - 3852