Github user vanzin commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1387#issuecomment-49072342
Just as a thought exercise: what if you change `ContextCleaner.stop()` to
interrupt the cleaning thread, wait for it to finish, and then manually clean
all buffered references that haven't been cleaned yet?
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