Suggested fix for JDK-4724038 (Add unmap method to MappedByteBuffer)
Andrew Haley
aph at redhat.com
Wed Sep 9 12:49:47 UTC 2015
On 09/09/2015 01:41 PM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
> If the answer to both of these can be shown to be affirmative, then I
> think there is a real viable solution which allows immediate release of
> backing resources, with the address space being reclaimed by GC.
GC delays can be days if an object is in the old generation, and the
Lucene people say this is a real problem for them. I don't understand
why you want a solution which does not meet one of the requirements.
GC is great for managing heap. For everything else it's not a
solution.
Andrew.
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