On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:08 AM, Akash Ashok <[email protected]> wrote: > There is a way to free this memory. We will need to extend ByteBuffer to do > this. finalize() method actually deallocates memory. But its a protected > member. > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1854398/how-to-garbage-collect-a-direct-buffer-java > > So we might have to allocate a new Buffer and terminate the old one. This is > gonna be expensive but since this is not done too often it should be ok. > > Have opened a JIRA for this. > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRECTMEMORY-24 > > Also could you please give me developer access and add me as a contributor > so that I can assign tickets and submit patches ?
Hi Akash, I just added you as a contributor in JIRA... Thanks, --tim
