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Shivaram Venkataraman reassigned SPARK-4030: -------------------------------------------- Assignee: Shivaram Venkataraman > `destroy` method in Broadcast should be public > ---------------------------------------------- > > Key: SPARK-4030 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4030 > Project: Spark > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Block Manager, Spark Core > Affects Versions: 1.1.0, 1.2.0 > Reporter: Shivaram Venkataraman > Assignee: Shivaram Venkataraman > > The destroy method in Broadcast.scala > [https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/broadcast/Broadcast.scala#L91] > is right now marked as private[spark] > This prevents long-running applications from cleaning up memory used by > broadcast variables on the driver. Also as broadcast variables are always > created with persistence MEMORY_DISK, this slows down jobs when old broadcast > variables are flushed to disk. > Making `destroy` public can help applications control the lifetime. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@spark.apache.org