Github user zsxwing commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/11140#discussion_r52812799 --- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/api/python/PythonRDD.scala --- @@ -892,27 +911,30 @@ private[spark] class PythonBroadcast(@transient var path: String) extends Serial private def readObject(in: ObjectInputStream): Unit = Utils.tryOrIOException { val dir = new File(Utils.getLocalDir(SparkEnv.get.conf)) val file = File.createTempFile("broadcast", "", dir) + phantomReferences += new FilePhantomReference(file, queue) path = file.getAbsolutePath val out = new FileOutputStream(file) Utils.tryWithSafeFinally { Utils.copyStream(in, out) } { - out.close() + in.close(); } } - /** - * Delete the file once the object is GCed. + /** Create a seperate daemon thread + * to remove phantomreferences from queue and invoke cleanup */ - override def finalize() { - if (!path.isEmpty) { - val file = new File(path) - if (file.exists()) { - if (!file.delete()) { - logWarning(s"Error deleting ${file.getPath}") - } + val referenceThread = new Thread(threadName){ --- End diff -- This will create a thread for each `PythonBroadcast`. We should avoid that. Maybe use a global thread to do that? However, this will leak a thread even if it's not used any more (e.g., after stopping SparkContext). Maybe `finalize` is the best option.
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