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Hudson commented on HDFS-8896:
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FAILURE: Integrated in Hadoop-Yarn-trunk #1040 (See
[https://builds.apache.org/job/Hadoop-Yarn-trunk/1040/])
HDFS-8896. DataNode object isn't GCed when shutdown, because it has GC root in
ShutdownHookManager. Contributed by Walter Su. (jing9: rev
f44b599003bb79b1ec9b92e7546546523ec01676)
* hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
*
hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/MiniDFSCluster.java
*
hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/ShutdownHookManager.java
> DataNode object isn't GCed when shutdown, because it has GC root in
> ShutdownHookManager
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HDFS-8896
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-8896
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: test
> Reporter: Walter Su
> Assignee: Walter Su
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 2.8.0
>
> Attachments: HDFS-8896.01.patch, screenshot_1.PNG, screenshot_2.PNG
>
>
> The anonymous {{Thread}} object created in {{ShutdownHookManager}} is a GC
> root.
> screenshot_1 shows how DN object be traced to the GC root.
> It's not a problem in production.
> It's a problem in test, especially when MiniDFSCluster starts/shutdowns many
> DNs, which could cause {{OutOfMemoryError}}.
> screenshot_2 shows many DN objects are not GCed when run the test of
> HDFS-8838.
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