Ok, seems this issue is already patched in the Hadoop distro I'm using (Cloudera).
Any idea if I still should call GC manually/periodically to clean out all the stale pipes / epolls? 2009/6/22 Steve Loughran <ste...@apache.org> > Stas Oskin wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> So what would be the recommended approach to pre-0.20.x series? >> >> To insure each file is used only by one thread, and then it safe to close >> the handle in that thread? >> >> Regards. >> > > good question -I'm not sure. For anythiong you get with FileSystem.get(), > its now dangerous to close, so try just setting the reference to null and > hoping that GC will do the finalize() when needed >
