Statement and Connection Leak Detection

This feature allows you to set specific time-outs so that if SQL statements or JDBC connections haven’t been closed by an application (potentially leading to a memory leak) they can be logged and/or closed.

By default these values are set to 0 meaning this detection feature is turned off.

When working on a test or staging environment, it is recommended that leaks are logged after a short timeout but not closed. On production environments, it is recommended that leaks are closed and all logged leaks are monitored instead.

Configuring Leak Detection using the admin console

  1. Click on the name of the JDBC connections pool

  2. Select the Advanced tab

  3. Scroll down to Connection Settings

  4. Set the Connection Leak Timeout and Statement Leak Timeout value in seconds

Leak Detection setting in Admin console

Configuring Leak Detection using administration commands

You also can set the time-out values using the following asadmin commands:

asadmin> set resources.jdbc-connection-pool.test-pool.statement-leak-timeout-in-seconds=5
asadmin> set resources.jdbc-connection-pool.test-pool.connection-leak-timeout-in-seconds=5

You can turn on reclaiming of the leaking resources with the following commands:

asadmin> set resources.jdbc-connection-pool.DerbyPool.connection-leak-reclaim=true
asadmin> setresources.jdbc-connection-pool.DerbyPool.statement-leak-reclaim=true

Once these values are set, if connection or statement leaks are detected, you will see messages similar to the example below in the application log:

WARNING: A potential connection leak detected for connection pool test-pool. The stack trace of the thread is provided below:
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