Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server 2.1 Release Notes

Win2003 only: Non-paged pool leak memory, breaking tcp stack and richaccess test (6575349)

Description

(Windows 2003 only) There are memory leaks on Windows 2003 systems when performing rich access functions. The problem occurs because the Win32 nonpaged pool keeps growing, eventually bringing down the entire TCP/IP stack. Once the failure happens, the TCP/IP stack is left in an recoverable state, and the only way restore it is by rebooting the Windows 2003 system.

Workaround

There are two workarounds to this issue: