JDBC Thin Driver Leaks Threads With Tomcat (Doc ID 1901449.1)

Last updated on MAY 25, 2023

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Symptoms

Oracle JDBC Thin driver is deployed in Tomcat. When the web application is shut down, it experiences the following problems:

1) The OracleDiagnosabilityMBean is not de-registered
2) OracleTimeoutPollingThread does not stop
3) The following thread does not stop: oracle.jdbc.driver.BlockSource.ThreadedCachingBlockSource.BlockReleaser

All of these result in references to the webapp classloader to be pinned in memory, resulting in a classloader leak, excessive PermGen memory
consumption, and eventual application server failures (OutOfMemoryError - PermGen space), after some cycles of hot-redeployment of web application.

Cause

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