Github user passionke commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/zeppelin/pull/1379 thanks your advice, It seems that the memory-based ByteArrayOutputStream do not need a close() method to release resources. Here is an answer at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2330569/closing-a-bytearrayoutputstream-has-no-effect
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