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Profilers & Heap Analyzers

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The main suspect is your own web application keeping a reference to Request / Response objects outside of their life cycle.

The lifetime of the Response object is documented in the Servlet specification. Quoting from section "5.8 Lifetime of the Response Object" of Servlet 4.0 specification:

"Each response object is valid only within the scope of a servlet’s service method, or within the scope of a filter’s doFilter method, unless the associated request object has asynchronous processing enabled for the component. If asynchronous processing on the associated request is started, then the response object remains valid until complete method on AsyncContext is called."

In case of asynchronous processing, when an error occurs Tomcat notifies all registered AsyncListener}}s and then calls {{complete() automatically if none of the listeners have called it yet. (Reference: 61768)

Also see sections "2.3.3.4 Thread Safety" and "3.13 Lifetime of the Request Object" of the same specification.


To troubleshoot the issue:

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