JBoss EAP native memory leak with mutual authentication on RHEL6 with OpenSSL

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Java process memory consumption increasing at about 1G per day until killed by the Out Of Memory (OOM) killer.
  • When not specifying the openssl provider (and using Java's JSSE one), the issue does not happen.
  • The issue also does not happen on RHEL7.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 7
  • Mutual authentication using OpenSSL
  • OpenSSL installed from the RHEL6 repository.

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