memory leak in parser symbol table ?

[Vincent Le Maout]

Hi,

I'm currently using a SAX parser in a server application embedded in 
Tomcat. Requests are received
in an XML form. The parser is not destroyed between successive calls. 
After roughly 200000 requests
(not exactly the same count each time) I get a MemoryError (unable to 
allocate more I guess).
By using a memory profiler (jmp) I noticed that 400000 strings were 
allocated and that most of them
reside in objects of type symbol table entry.
I took a look a source code  : a table is used to avoid allocating 
strings too often and mutiple times
(the so called symbol table). What does this table store ? tag and 
attributes name ? Does it store data ?
I didn't see any method to remove data from this table so I guess 
everything is removed when it is
destroyed but what if I never destroy my parser ? Is it possible that 
the table "leaks" ? Is it normal that
several hundred thousand strings be allocated in this table ?

Thanks in advance.

Vince


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