Re: [aspectj-users] On the subject of profiling

[Andy Clement <andrew.clement@xxxxxxxxx>]

It should not grow over time - it is kind of a 'working set' of types
that need to be around.  The model will also be large but should not
grow.

If either of those do grow significantly on each build, it is a bug.

I wish my eclipse could stay up for a few days :)

Andy

2009/10/8 Dave Whittaker <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Thanks Andy, that helps. Should I expect then that during a clean/build AJ
> will pull more or less everything it needs into the world and I won't see it
> grow significantly larger over time?  If that's the case than it's most
> likely not the main culprit since I'm seeing my Eclipse instances grow to
> over a gig of usage after a few days.
>
> On Oct 8, 2009, at 5:14 PM, Andy Clement wrote:
>
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>> The world will be big - and gradually I work on shrinking it.  The
>> problematic object that surprised me is the model (discussed under
>> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=278496).  There are a
>> few things I plan to do to address it during 1.6.7.
>>
>> In an ideal setup the World will shrink when not being used and grow
>> as necessary, pulling back in type information.  But it was never
>> designed like that in the first version of AJ and because it is a core
>> piece I have to be careful what I do with it.  In my blog post on LTW
>> memory usage (
>> http://andrewclement.blogspot.com/2009/04/aspectj-load-time-weaving-and-memory.html
>> ) I describe a couple of flags that can *probably* also be used with
>> compile time weaving to reduce the world size - but they haven't had
>> enough testing for me to feel comfortable having that behaviour
>> default to enabled.
>>
>> Andy
>>
>> 2009/10/8 Dave Whittaker <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>
>>> I've had some issues with memory usage lately so I started eclipse, did a
>>> clean/rebuild of an AspectJ project I'm working on, performed a heap dump
>>> and ran it through the memory analyzer.  I found that the
>>> org.aspectj.weaver.BcelWorld class is accounting for 40% of my total heap
>>> usage, about 259 meg worth after a single build.  Is that normal?
>>>
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