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StringBuilder out of memory error

 
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I'm going crazy because i'm getting the following error and i can't figure out why.

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
at java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Arrays.java:2882)
at java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.expandCapacity(AbstractStringBuilder.java:100)
at java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.append(AbstractStringBuilder.java:572)
at java.lang.StringBuilder.append(StringBuilder.java:203)
at com.autonomy.ps.gs.IDOLListener.doPost(IDOLListener.java:37)

my code is



Line 37 is the append line. What am i doing wrong? I tried to put a sysout before the append to see what characters are being sent to my servlet post, but there is nothing in the logs. This happens even after i restart tomcat and there is nothing hitting the servlet.

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Because, you can see from the error message, the JVM does a arrayCopy when it expands the StringBuilder. If the StirngBuilder needs to be expanded whenever you append a char, then JVM will do this array copy again and again which consumes a lot of memory. I think you need to change your way of reading with buffering. try using readLine(byte[] b,int off,int len) method of ServletInputStream.
 
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JavaRanch FAQ: Investigate OutOfMemoryError
 
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