Excessive Heap Consumption in com.sun.imageio.plugins.jpeg.JPEGImageWriter using OpenJDK

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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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