Hi. Any idea if calling System.gc() periodically will help reducing the amount of pipes / epolls?
Thanks for your opinion! 2009/6/22 Stas Oskin <stas.os...@gmail.com> > Ok, seems this issue is already patched in the Hadoop distro I'm using > (Cloudera). > > Any idea if I still should call GC manually/periodically to clean out all > the stale pipes / epolls? > > 2009/6/22 Steve Loughran <ste...@apache.org> > >> Stas Oskin wrote: >> >> Hi. >>> >>> So what would be the recommended approach to pre-0.20.x series? >>> >>> To insure each file is used only by one thread, and then it safe to close >>> the handle in that thread? >>> >>> Regards. >>> >> >> good question -I'm not sure. For anythiong you get with FileSystem.get(), >> its now dangerous to close, so try just setting the reference to null and >> hoping that GC will do the finalize() when needed >> >
