Github user paul-rogers commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/840#discussion_r124950905
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exec/vector/src/main/java/org/apache/drill/exec/vector/VectorUtils.java ---
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+package org.apache.drill.exec.vector;
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+public class VectorUtils {
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+ /**
+ * Vectors cannot be any larger than the Netty memory allocation
+ * block size.
+ */
+
+ private static final int ABSOLUTE_MAX_SIZE = 16 * 1024 * 1024;
+ private static final int ABSOLUTE_MIN_SIZE = 16 * 1024;
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This code allows a boot-time option to limit maximum vector size. I thought
it would be handy for testing, but turned out not to be necessary, so I might
remove it.
To prevent failures when the value is set wrong, I clamped the value to
some minimum and maximum. The maximum is set by the Netty block size. The
minimum I just made up: seems if we limit vector size to much smaller than 16 K
we'd be unlikely to make progress.
Added a comment to clarify.
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