GitHub user tcrayford opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/1614
KAFKA-3933: close deepIterator during log recovery Avoids leaking native memory and hence crashing brokers on bootup due to running out of memory. Introduces `kafka.common.ClosableIterator`, which is an iterator that can be closed, and changes the signature of `ByteBufferMessageSet.deepIterator` to return it, then changes the callers to always close the iterator. This is a followup from https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/1598 with more native memory leaks in the broker code found and fixed. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/heroku/kafka dont_leak_native_memory Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/1614.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 #1614 ---- commit 7fa608371ff8e380350029f3ab1dcffeb0e26c73 Author: Tom Crayford <tcrayf...@googlemail.com> Date: 2016-07-08T11:50:21Z KAFKA-3933: close deepIterator during log recovery Avoids leaking native memory and hence crashing brokers on bootup due to running out of memory. Introduces `kafka.common.ClosableIterator`, which is an iterator that can be closed, and changes the signature of `ByteBufferMessageSet.deepIterator` to return it, then changes the callers to always close the iterator. ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---