Of cause. If you use a ThreadLocal in a long living thread and forget to remove it, it's definitely a memory leak.
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 9:31 PM, N B <nb.nos...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone know if there are any potential pitfalls associated with using > ThreadLocal variables in a Spark streaming application? One things I have > seen mentioned in the context of app servers that use thread pools is that > ThreadLocals can leak memory. Could this happen in Spark streaming also? > > Thanks > Nikunj > >
