Excessive Heap Consumption in com.sun.imageio.plugins.jpeg.JPEGImageWriter using OpenJDK
Issue
- After upgrading to java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.61.1.11.11.el6_4.x86_64, Java applications are consuming more memory (specifically int[] objects allocated by com.sun.imageio.plugins.jpeg.JPEGImageWriter), without releasing it.
- It throws a OOME Heap Size Exception. How to fix it?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- 5
- 6
- OpenJDK
- java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.41.1.11.11.90.el5_9
- java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.61.1.11.11.el6_4.x86_64
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