Github user mateiz commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/50#discussion_r10201181 --- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/serializer/JavaSerializer.scala --- @@ -23,9 +23,27 @@ import java.nio.ByteBuffer import org.apache.spark.SparkConf import org.apache.spark.util.ByteBufferInputStream -private[spark] class JavaSerializationStream(out: OutputStream) extends SerializationStream { +private[spark] class JavaSerializationStream(out: OutputStream, + conf: SparkConf) extends SerializationStream { val objOut = new ObjectOutputStream(out) - def writeObject[T](t: T): SerializationStream = { objOut.writeObject(t); this } + var counter = 0 + val counterReset = conf.getInt("spark.serializer.objectStreamReset", 10000) + + /* Calling reset to avoid memory leak: + * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1281549/memory-leak-traps-in-the-java-standard-api + * But only call it every 1000th time to avoid bloated serialization streams (when --- End diff -- Should say 10000th
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