Github user JoshRosen commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/9260#discussion_r42928573 --- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/collection/ExternalAppendOnlyMap.scala --- @@ -214,13 +215,18 @@ class ExternalAppendOnlyMap[K, V, C]( spilledMaps.append(new DiskMapIterator(file, blockId, batchSizes)) } + private def freeCurrentMap(): Unit = { + currentMap = null // So that the memory can be garbage-collected + releaseMemoryForThisThread() + } + /** * Return an iterator that merges the in-memory map with the spilled maps. * If no spill has occurred, simply return the in-memory map's iterator. */ override def iterator: Iterator[(K, C)] = { if (spilledMaps.isEmpty) { - currentMap.iterator + CompletionIterator[(K, C), Iterator[(K, C)]](currentMap.iterator, freeCurrentMap()) --- End diff -- I debated whether to push this burden to callers rather than using a `CompletionIterator` here until I noticed that `ExternalIterator()` ends up calling `currentMap.destructiveSortedIterator()`, so (implicitly) this method already had the limitation that it could only be called once.
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