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

The item 7 of Effective Java second edition is: "Avoid finalizers". I strongly recommend you to read it. Here is an extract that may help you:

"Explicit termination methods are typically used in combination with try-finally construct to ensure termination"