RESTful Management Services Leads to Memory Usage in weblogic.servlet.internal.session.MemorySessionContext (Doc ID 2315350.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 07, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

Using a python script to access the RESTful management services through a common URL that follows a common format:

http(s)://[host]:[port]/management/weblogic/<version>/serverRuntime

Heap usage goes up over time, a heap dump shows the following symptoms

1)

One instance of "weblogic.servlet.internal.session.MemorySessionContext" loaded by "com.oracle.classloader.weblogic.LaunchClassLoader @ 0xeaaad098" occupies 112,578,776 (24.96%) bytes.
The memory is accumulated in one instance of "java.util.Hashtable$Entry[]" loaded by "<system
class loader>"

2)

One instance of "weblogic.servlet.internal.HttpServer" loaded by "com.oracle.classloader.weblogic.LaunchClassLoader @ 0xeaaad098" occupies 55,835,336 (12.38%) bytes.
The memory is accumulated in one instance of "weblogic.servlet.internal.HttpServer$SessionLogin" loaded by "com.oracle.classloader.weblogic.LaunchClassLoader @ 0xeaaad098".

3)

106,739 instances of "weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject", loaded by "com.oracle.classloader.weblogic.LaunchClassLoader @ 0xeaaad098" occupy 153,704,152 (34.08%) bytes.
These instances are referenced from one instance of "java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap$Node[]", loaded by "<system
class loader>"

Cause

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