Github user mridulm commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1165#discussion_r14324878 --- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/CacheManager.scala --- @@ -142,10 +151,76 @@ private[spark] class CacheManager(blockManager: BlockManager) extends Logging { * to the BlockManager as an iterator and expect to read it back later. This is because * we may end up dropping a partition from memory store before getting it back, e.g. * when the entirety of the RDD does not fit in memory. */ - val elements = new ArrayBuffer[Any] - elements ++= values - updatedBlocks ++= blockManager.put(key, elements, storageLevel, tellMaster = true) - elements.iterator.asInstanceOf[Iterator[T]] + --- End diff -- Do this only if off-heap or DISK is allowed : if it is just MEMORY, then this is just unnecessary overhead.
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