Less confusing leak warning message

stephenyik · Jul 17, 2013 · e53738f · e53738f
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commit e53738f
Showing 1 changed file with 4 additions and 1 deletion.
diff --git a/common/src/main/java/io/netty/util/ResourceLeakDetector.java b/common/src/main/java/io/netty/util/ResourceLeakDetector.java
@@ -139,7 +139,10 @@ private void reportLeak() {
             }
 
             if (reportedLeaks.putIfAbsent(ref.exception, Boolean.TRUE) == null) {
-                logger.warn("LEAK: " + resourceType + " was GC'd before being released correctly.", ref.exception);
+                logger.warn(
+                        "LEAK: " + resourceType + " was GC'd before being released correctly.  " +
+                        "The following stack trace shows where the leaked object was created, " +
+                        "rather than who failed to release it where.", ref.exception);
             }
         }
     }