Got it. The proposal makes sense to me, let's remove the suggestion.

-Val

On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 5:50 AM Ilya Korol <llivezk...@gmail.com> wrote:

> In some circumstances there could be a state when direct buffers
> (instantiated for IO purposes) hold too many memory and to get this
> memory back JVM calls System.gc() (as was mentioned earlier by Ivan
> Daschinsky):
>
> ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(capacity)
>      new DirectButeBuffer(capacity)
>          Bits.reserveMemory(size, cap)
> ...
>              System.gc() // if optimistic attempts to reserve required
> memory failed
>
> See also:
> [1]
>
> http://www.mastertheboss.com/other/java-stuff/troubleshooting-outofmemoryerror-direct-buffer-memory
>
> See
>
> 16.05.2021 01:21, Valentin Kulichenko пишет:
> > Hi Ilya,
> >
> > Out of curiosity - what are the potential problems with memory buffers
> that
> > you're referring to?
> >
> > -Val
> >
> > On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 5:06 AM Ilya Korol <llivezk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi, everyone.
> >>
> >> There is a proposal to remove suggestion that user should disable
> >> explicit GC calls in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IGNITE-14720
> .
> >>
> >> Nowadays people usually don't use this facility directly without huge
> >> need (at least we hope so), so this suggestion doesn't bring much
> >> profit, but instead could lead to potential problems with reclaiming
> >> memory used by direct memory buffers.
> >>
> >> I'm going to fix this.
> >>
> >> Is there any objections (suggestions)?
> >>
> >>
>

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