tomvanbussel opened a new pull request #29787: URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/29787
### What changes were proposed in this pull request? This PR changes `UnsafeExternalSorter.SpillableIterator` to free its memory (except for the page holding the last record) if it is forced to spill after all of its records have been read. It also makes sure that `lastPage` is freed if `loadNext` is never called the again. The latter was necessary to get my test case to succeed (otherwise it would complain about a leak). ### Why are the changes needed? No memory is freed after calling `UnsafeExternalSorter.SpillableIterator.spill()` when all records have been read, even though it is still holding onto some memory. This may cause a `SparkOutOfMemoryError` to be thrown, even though we could have just freed the memory instead. ### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change? No ### How was this patch tested? A test was added to `UnsafeExternalSorterSuite`. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
