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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-8466: --------------------------------------- Github user StephanEwen commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5348 Thanks for the review. Merging this to `master` and `release-1.4`. > ErrorInfo needs to hold Exception as SerializedThrowable > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-8466 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-8466 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Local Runtime > Affects Versions: 1.4.0 > Reporter: Jelmer Kuperus > Assignee: Stephan Ewen > Priority: Blocker > Fix For: 1.5.0, 1.4.1 > > Attachments: Screen Shot 2018-01-20 at 1.48.33 PM.png > > > MemoryArchivist holding on to last thrown exception prevents the user code > classloader from being garbage collected. > MemoryArchivist holds on to any number of ArchivedExecutionGraph's. These > ArchivedExecutionGraph instances contain a failureCause field of type > ErrorInfo that wrap the exception in case one was thrown to terminate the job > This exception class will more often than not have been loaded by a user code > classloader, and as long as the MemoryArchivist holds on to this exception, > the JVM won't be able to reclaim the resources held by this classloader -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)