Sorry, didn’t pay attention that the size of every object is 1 KB. Then I would 
suggest to share your test/heap dump to see what happens.

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Denis

> On Jan 21, 2017, at 9:10 PM, Denis Magda <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello Peter,
> 
> This behavior is expected. Look, you serialize 2000 objects * 1000 KB which 
> gives ~ 2 GB in total. After that you hold the references to these objects by 
> putting them into an ordinary hash map. The objects will not be removed from 
> the heap until the map keeps them.
> 
> One the other side, when the same objects are placed into an off-heap cache 
> they will be collected from the heap because at the end there will be no 
> reachable references to them.
> 
> —
> Denis
> 
>> On Jan 21, 2017, at 2:46 PM, Peter Schmitt <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello Ignite-Community!
>> 
>> I would like to use the Marshaller from Ignite for de-/serialising objects.
>> I would like to re-use it, because it's very fast and I'm using Ignite 
>> anyway.
>> 
>> I tried it with:
>> 
>> //every thread gets the Marshaller via:
>> GridKernalContext ctx = ((IgniteKernal) ignite).context();
>> Marshaller marshaller = ctx.grid().configuration().getMarshaller();
>> 
>> ->
>> 
>> byte serializedResult[] = marshaller.marshal(obj);
>> or
>> Object deserializedResult = marshaller.unmarshal(serializedResult, 
>> ctx.getClass().getClassLoader());
>> 
>> In a simple test it worked very well (and fast).
>> However, once I'm using larger Objects (e.g. 2000 instances each ~1kb after 
>> marshalling) and store the results in a map, the Heap consumption grows a 
>> lot (almost 2gb in few seconds).
>> If I store the same objects in an Ignite OffHeap-Cache, the (OffHeap) 
>> memory-consumption is minimal.
>> In the debugger I saw that the heap grows once those 2000 instances get 
>> processed.
>> (A manually triggered GC can just release few mb.)
>> 
>> I even tried to re-use the marshaller, but nothing changed.
>> At runtime BinaryMarshaller is used which wraps GridBinaryMarshaller.
>> 
>> Any hint to get rid of the leak is appreciated,
>> Peter
> 

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