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Doug Cutting commented on HADOOP-4802:
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I'm still not convinced we should do more than replace the buf.reset() with buf
= new ByteArrayOutputStream() and remove the initialization of buf altogether.
> RPC Server send buffer retains size of largest response ever sent
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> Key: HADOOP-4802
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4802
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: ipc
> Affects Versions: 0.18.2, 0.19.0
> Reporter: stack
> Attachments: 4802-v2.patch, 4802.patch
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> The stack-based ByteArrayOutputStream in Server.Hander is reset each time
> through the run loop. This will set the BAOS 'size' back to zero but the
> allocated backing buffer is unaltered. If during an Handlers' lifecycle, any
> particular RPC response was fat -- Megabytes, even -- the buffer expands
> during the write to accommodate the particular response but then never
> shrinks subsequently. If a hosting Server has had more than one 'fat
> payload' occurrence, the resultant occupied heap can provoke memory woes (See
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-900?focusedCommentId=12654009#action_12654009
> for an extreme example; occasional payloads of 20-50MB with 30 handlers
> robbed the heap of 700MB).
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