Sasha Sirovica created ARROW-17473:
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Summary: [Go] String Binary Builder Leaks Memory When Writing to
Parquet
Key: ARROW-17473
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-17473
Project: Apache Arrow
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Go
Affects Versions: 9.0.0
Environment: Mac
Reporter: Sasha Sirovica
When using `arrow.BinaryTypes.String` in a schema, appending multiple strings,
and then writing a record out to parquet the memory of the program continuously
increases.
I took a heap dump on my computer midway through the program and the majority
of allocations comes from `StringBuilder.Append`. I approached 16GB of RAM
before terminating the program.
I was not able to replicate this behavior with just PrimativeTypes. Another
interesting point, if the records are created but never written with pqarrow
there are also no memory leaks. In the below program commenting out
`w.Write(rec)` will not cause memory issues.
Example program which causes memory to leak:
{code:java}
package main
import (
"os"
"testing"
"github.com/apache/arrow/go/v9/arrow"
"github.com/apache/arrow/go/v9/arrow/array"
"github.com/apache/arrow/go/v9/arrow/memory"
"github.com/apache/arrow/go/v9/parquet"
"github.com/apache/arrow/go/v9/parquet/compress"
"github.com/apache/arrow/go/v9/parquet/pqarrow"
)
func main() {
f, _ := os.Create("/tmp/test.parquet")
arrowProps := pqarrow.DefaultWriterProps()
schema := arrow.NewSchema(
[]arrow.Field{
{Name: "aString", Type: arrow.BinaryTypes.String},
},
nil,
)
w, _ := pqarrow.NewFileWriter(schema, f,
parquet.NewWriterProperties(parquet.WithCompression(compress.Codecs.Snappy)),
arrowProps)
builder := array.NewRecordBuilder(memory.DefaultAllocator, schema)
for i := 1; i < 50000000; i++ {
builder.Field(0).(*array.StringBuilder).Append("HelloWorld!")
if i%2000000 == 0 {
// Write row groups out every 2M times
rec := builder.NewRecord()
w.Write(rec)
rec.Release()
}
}
w.Close()
}{code}
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