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Jason Rutherglen commented on HBASE-4026: ----------------------------------------- @Todd Interesting. Guess we have a new Jira issue to work on. > Use JNA to allocate buffers in the block cache > ---------------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-4026 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4026 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: regionserver > Reporter: Jason Rutherglen > Priority: Minor > > The HBase block cache can be problematic because it is unpredictable when > Java will reclaim the unused byte arrays using garbage collection. > JNA (Java Native Access from Sun/Oracle) provides one possible way to solve > this problem. > https://github.com/twall/jna > Memory is the name of the class that can be used to test the implementation. > https://github.com/twall/jna/blob/master/src/com/sun/jna/Memory.java -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira