Created attachment 26008 [details]
Patch to remove context classloader from threads in ThreadPoolExecutor in tribes

Tested on apache-tomcat-6.0.29 running under jdk 1.6.0_18.

When DeltaManager is instantiated and assigned in StandardContext.start(),
is it done AFTER StandardContext.bindThreads().

DeltaManager, in turn, during initalization, asks for sessions in other nodes,
and this may result in creating threads in ThreadPoolExecutor in tribes.

These threads created with contextClassLoader set to current
webapplication WebAppClassLoader.

This results in memory leak and error message during redeployment in tomcat log:

09/09/2010 14:46:19 S - - WebappClassLoader.clearReferencesThreads:
The web application [/creditdev] appears to have started a thread
named [pool-1-thread-1] but has failed to stop it. This is very likely
to create a memory leak.

Stacktrace:
       at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.addThread(Unknown Source)
       at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.addIfUnderCorePoolSize(Unknown
Source)
       at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.execute(Unknown Source)
       at org.apache.catalina.tribes.group.interceptors.MessageDispatch15Interceptor.addToQueue(MessageDispatch15Interceptor.java:67)
       at org.apache.catalina.tribes.group.interceptors.MessageDispatchInterceptor.sendMessage(MessageDispatchInterceptor.java:68)
       at org.apache.catalina.tribes.group.ChannelInterceptorBase.sendMessage(ChannelInterceptorBase.java:75)
       at org.apache.catalina.tribes.group.interceptors.TcpFailureDetector.sendMessage(TcpFailureDetector.java:87)
       at org.apache.catalina.tribes.group.ChannelInterceptorBase.sendMessage(ChannelInterceptorBase.java:75)
       at org.apache.catalina.tribes.group.GroupChannel.send(GroupChannel.java:216)
       at org.apache.catalina.tribes.group.GroupChannel.send(GroupChannel.java:175)
       at org.apache.catalina.ha.tcp.SimpleTcpCluster.send(SimpleTcpCluster.java:813)
       at org.apache.catalina.ha.session.DeltaManager.getAllClusterSessions(DeltaManager.java:959)
       at org.apache.catalina.ha.session.DeltaManager.start(DeltaManager.java:930)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.setManager(ContainerBase.java:438)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4559)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:546)
       at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:637)
       at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:563)
       at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:498)
       at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1277)
       at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:321)
       at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:785)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:445)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:519)
       at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
       at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:581)
       at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
       at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
       at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
       at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289)
       at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414)
       at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
       at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
       at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
       at org.tanukisoftware.wrapper.WrapperStartStopApp.run(WrapperStartStopApp.java:243)
       at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Proposed solution - implement java.util.concurrent.ThreadFactory in
MessageDispatch15Interceptor
and pass instance on ThreadPoolExecutor executor creation.
This instance must call setContextClassLoader(null) in newThread()
overriden method.