From 7085c0e4acb70b7d4a07e99d7a9bea3554d0fc62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Igor Fedorenko <igor@ifedorenko.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 21:18:44 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Explicitly release resources used by java.util.zip.Deflater

Deflater can use significant amount of native (i.e. C) heap
space. Failure to promptly release this memory results
in native memory leak in some cases, particularly severe for
VMs with large java max heap size. For example, running
Team->Commit in one of my EGit workspaces results in ~500M
java process size increase without any significant change
to amount of used java heap when JVM is started with -Xmx1024m.

Change-Id: I649679a8df5683ebedd9380d703513d31c625932
Signed-off-by: Igor Fedorenko <igor@ifedorenko.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
---
 .../src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/ObjectWriter.java           | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/ObjectWriter.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/ObjectWriter.java
index 60e85eb57..b75328330 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/ObjectWriter.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/ObjectWriter.java
@@ -78,8 +78,6 @@ public class ObjectWriter {
 
 	private final MessageDigest md;
 
-	private final Deflater def;
-
 	/**
 	 * Construct an Object writer for the specified repository
 	 * @param d
@@ -88,7 +86,6 @@ public ObjectWriter(final Repository d) {
 		r = d;
 		buf = new byte[8192];
 		md = Constants.newMessageDigest();
-		def = new Deflater(r.getConfig().getCore().getCompression());
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -309,6 +306,7 @@ ObjectId writeObject(final int type, long len, final InputStream is,
 		final DeflaterOutputStream deflateStream;
 		final FileOutputStream fileStream;
 		ObjectId id = null;
+		Deflater def = null;
 
 		if (store) {
 			t = File.createTempFile("noz", null, r.getObjectsDirectory());
@@ -320,7 +318,7 @@ ObjectId writeObject(final int type, long len, final InputStream is,
 
 		md.reset();
 		if (store) {
-			def.reset();
+			def = new Deflater(r.getConfig().getCore().getCompression());
 			deflateStream = new DeflaterOutputStream(fileStream, def);
 		} else
 			deflateStream = null;
@@ -374,6 +372,9 @@ ObjectId writeObject(final int type, long len, final InputStream is,
 					t.delete();
 				}
 			}
+			if (def != null) {
+				def.end();
+			}
 		}
 
 		if (t == null)
-- 
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