diff --git a/ddprof-lib/src/main/cpp/livenessTracker.cpp b/ddprof-lib/src/main/cpp/livenessTracker.cpp
index 61e17f8bc..840f6c606 100644
--- a/ddprof-lib/src/main/cpp/livenessTracker.cpp
+++ b/ddprof-lib/src/main/cpp/livenessTracker.cpp
@@ -370,7 +370,10 @@ void LivenessTracker::track(JNIEnv *env, AllocEvent &event, jint tid,
       } else {
         Log::debug("Cannot add sampled object to Liveness tracking table, it's "
                    "overflowing");
+        env->DeleteWeakGlobalRef(ref);
       }
+    } else {
+      env->DeleteWeakGlobalRef(ref);
     }
   }
   skipped = 0; // reset the subsampling skipped bytes