[Building Sakai] Question about Samigo and RemoveAssessmentThread

[Cris J Holdorph]

We have a production system that has run out of memory 3 times in the 
last two days (just over 24 hours).  The memory dump the system admin 
took, showed a few instances of the samigo "RemoveAssessmentThread" running.

I looked into that code, and I'm confused as to why this code has to be 
a thread at all.  It really only seems to do two things:

assessmentService.removeAssessment(this.assessmentId);
EventTrackingService.post(EventTrackingService.newEvent("sam.assessment.remove", 
"assessmentId=" + assessmentId, context, 
true,NotificationService.NOTI_NONE));

I tried to look through the subversion logs, but it looks like this 
thread existed right from day one when the code base was imported into 
subversion from cvs.  So no clues there.

Does anyone know why this code exists as a separate thread?  Is there 
any reason why this couldn't/shouldn't be simplified and just done 
without the use of a Thread?

---- Cris J H