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Rohini Palaniswamy commented on PIG-5385:
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> Skip calling extra gc() before spilling large bag when unnecessary
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> Key: PIG-5385
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-5385
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Koji Noguchi
> Assignee: Koji Noguchi
> Priority: Trivial
> Attachments: pig-5385-v01.patch
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> In order to determine when to start spilling bags, Pig uses
> MemoryNotification for both MEMORY_THRESHOLD_EXCEEDED and
> MEMORY_COLLECTION_THRESHOLD_EXCEEDED.
> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/management/MemoryNotificationInfo.html
> Since spilling a large bag is expensive, Pig explicitly call System.gc() when
> the expected size is huge. I think we can skip this step when notification
> is based on MEMORY_COLLECTION_THRESHOLD_EXCEEDED since this means jvm has
> called the gc already.
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