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Jason Brown commented on CASSANDRA-6609: ---------------------------------------- I thought arrays in java were always allocated on the heap. As a java array is a reference type (essentially, an object, but with different syntax), it's going to behave like other instantiated objects and live on the heap. > Reduce Bloom Filter Garbage Allocation > -------------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-6609 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6609 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Benedict > Attachments: tmp.diff > > > Just spotted that we allocate potentially large amounts of garbage on bloom > filter lookups, since we allocate a new long[] for each hash() and to store > the bucket indexes we visit, in a manner that guarantees they are allocated > on heap. With a lot of sstables and many requests, this could easily be > hundreds of megabytes of young gen churn per second. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.5#6160)