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Eli Collins commented on HDFS-2092: ----------------------------------- Makes sense, was assuming that was the context, just wanted to double check because I didn't see other jiras that would remove the other remaining refs. Out of curiosity, how big is your typical Configuration object? Ie how much memory will a typical client save once Configuration becomes a short-lived class? > Remove configuration object reference in DFSClient > -------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-2092 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2092 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Bug > Components: hdfs client > Affects Versions: 0.23.0 > Reporter: Bharath Mundlapudi > Assignee: Bharath Mundlapudi > Fix For: 0.23.0 > > Attachments: HDFS-2092-1.patch, HDFS-2092-2.patch > > > At present, DFSClient stores reference to configuration object. Since, these > configuration objects are pretty big at times can blot the processes which > has multiple DFSClient objects like in TaskTracker. This is an attempt to > remove the reference of conf object in DFSClient. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira