netty5/common/src
Trustin Lee 337f5bbb8e Automatic diagnosis of resource leaks
Now that we are going to use buffer pooling by default, it is obvious
that a user will forget to call .free() and report memory leak. In this
case, we should have a tool to determine if it is a bug in our allocator
implementation or in the user's code.

This pull request adds a system property flag called
'io.netty.resourceLeakDetection'. If set, when a user forgets to call
.free(), the ResourceLeakDetector will detect it and log a message with
detailed stack trace to tell where the leaked buffer has been allocated.

Because obtaining stack trace is an expensive operation, I used sampling
technique. Allocation is recorded only for every 113th allocation. I
chose 113 because it's a prime number.

In production, a user might not want to enable this option due to
potential performance impact. If a user does not specify the
'-Dio.netty.resourceLeakDetection' option leak detection is disabled.

Even if the leak detection is enabled, the overhead should be less than
5% because only ~1% of allocations are monitored.

I also replaced SharedResourceMisuseDetector with ResourceLeakDetector.
2013-01-15 14:15:27 +09:00
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main/java/io/netty Automatic diagnosis of resource leaks 2013-01-15 14:15:27 +09:00
test Fix various inspection warnings 2013-01-10 15:23:58 +09:00