On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Tim Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:08 AM, Akash Ashok <[email protected]> > wrote: > > There is a way to free this memory. We will need to extend ByteBuffer to > do > > this. finalize() method actually deallocates memory. But its a protected > > member. > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1854398/how-to-garbage-collect-a-direct-buffer-java > > > > So we might have to allocate a new Buffer and terminate the old one. This > is > > gonna be expensive but since this is not done too often it should be ok. > > > > Have opened a JIRA for this. > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRECTMEMORY-24 > > > > Also could you please give me developer access and add me as a > contributor > > so that I can assign tickets and submit patches ? > > Hi Akash, > I just added you as a contributor in JIRA... > > Thanks a lot Tim.
