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ASF GitHub Bot commented on KAFKA-3735: --------------------------------------- GitHub user guozhangwang opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/1411 KAFKA-3735: Dispose all RocksObejcts upon completeness You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/guozhangwang/kafka K3735-dispose-rocksobject Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/1411.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #1411 ---- commit e561a48c4dfa3057b60a55ce1540382d4324dcbe Author: Guozhang Wang <wangg...@gmail.com> Date: 2016-05-20T03:17:15Z dispose all rocksobejcts ---- > RocksDB objects needs to be disposed after usage > ------------------------------------------------ > > Key: KAFKA-3735 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3735 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Components: streams > Reporter: Guozhang Wang > Assignee: Guozhang Wang > Labels: architecture > > The RocksDB JNI interface {{RocksObject}} has a dispose() function which need > to be explicitly triggered after it is not reused, otherwise GC may not be > able to de-reference it off-heap and hence effective lead to memory leak. > See: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/issues/752#issuecomment-146511412 > We need to make sure all library-controlled RocksDB objects are disposed > after usage, and also indicate users to {{close}} those out-of-control > objects. > Note that RocksDB community is also going to replace the {{dispose}} API by > extending {{AutoClosable}} in the future, so this ticket may need to be > re-visited when upgrade RocksDB versions: > https://www.facebook.com/groups/rocksdb.dev/permalink/870848569680325/ -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)