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dhruba borthakur commented on HADOOP-1130:
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Can Owen, Philippe or Tom please review this patch and indicate whether it is
ripe for committing?
> Remove unused ClientFinalizer in DFSClient
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> Key: HADOOP-1130
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1130
> Project: Hadoop
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: dfs
> Affects Versions: 0.10.1, 0.11.0, 0.11.1, 0.11.2, 0.12.0
> Reporter: Philippe Gassmann
> Assignee: Chris Douglas
> Fix For: 0.16.0
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> Attachments: 1130.patch, HADOOP-1130.diff
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> The ClientFinalizer shutdown hook is not used.
> This can lead to severe memory leaks if you use the DFSClient in a dynamic
> class loading context (such as in a webapp) as the DFSClient.ClientFinalizer
> class is retained in the memory by the shutdown hook. It retains also the
> current ClassLoader and thus all classes loaded by the ClassLoader. (Threads
> put in the shutdown hook are never garbage collected).
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