Reading RDF/XML.
The interaction between ARP and Xerces includes a significant memory leak probably caused by Xerces interning some strings, on behalf of ARP. This feature cannot be turned off. This is not a new bug, so ARP users will not experience a degradation in performance. However, for users who have limited memory, or who are processing large files, or files from many diverse sources, or for long-lived applications such as web servers, it is important to be aware of this leak. I believe that the strings being interned correspond to the XML element tags and attribute names in the XML document. These form an open set in RDF/XML, unlike most XML applications.
No proper work around is provided at this time; it is hoped that later enhancements will provide a non-Xerces solution.
The best current advice is as follows:
The size of the leak is presumably highly dependent on the actual RDF/XML documents read. As an example the OWL Guide wine ontology, (using the version from the OWL Test Cases) contains about 2000 triples and leaks about 180K.