Github user mengxr commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/17742
A single buffer doesn't lead to long GC pause. If it request lot of memory,
it might trigger GC to collect other objects. But itself is a single object,
which can be easily GC'ed. The problem here is having many small long-living
objects as in `output`.
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