Github user NicoK commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5105#discussion_r156386302 --- Diff: flink-runtime/src/test/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/io/network/partition/SpilledSubpartitionViewTest.java --- @@ -48,8 +47,7 @@ private static final IOManager IO_MANAGER = new IOManagerAsync(); - private static final TestInfiniteBufferProvider writerBufferPool = - new TestInfiniteBufferProvider(); + private static final TestPooledBufferProvider writerBufferPool = new TestPooledBufferProvider(Integer.MAX_VALUE); --- End diff -- From what I see, `TestPooledBufferProvider` keeps a queue of created buffers which is never cleaned up. If we use this in the heap (as in the `RecordWriterTest`), we should be fine since no remaining reference to the object will gc it. However, imho, this static member cannot be gc'd and we should at least offer some `destroy()` method and call it once done with the test.
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