Troubleshooting a java memory leak: finalization?

Question

I have a misbehaving application that seems to leak. After a brief profiler investigation, most memory (80%) is held by java.lang.ref.Finalizer instances. I sus

Answer 1

I have same issue with you (below picture). For our case, it because an object has wait(0) in its finalize and it never get notified, which block the java.lang.ref.Finalizer$FinalizerThread. More reference

• The Secret Life Of The Finalizer
• java/lang/ref/Finalizer.java