Class Unmapper
- java.lang.Object
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- uk.ac.starlink.fits.Unmapper
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public abstract class Unmapper extends java.lang.Object
Attempts to free resources from a MappedByteBuffer.This is a tricky business. There is no good way to unmap the memory mapped by a MappedByteBuffer. The MappedByteBuffer javadocs say "A mapped byte buffer and the file mapping that it represents remain valid until the buffer itself is garbage-collected.", and there is no explicit unmap method. However, since the resources locked by memory mapping are separate from the JVM heap, there is no guarantee that garbage collection will happen even when mapped memory reaches crisis levels, and in practice this can lead to cache thrashing and the OS locking up even when there are many MappedByteBuffers without active references, at least on some platforms (I see it on Scientific Linux 6.5 with 24Gb RAM, but not SL 6.3 with 4Gb, but I'm not sure what the relevant differences are).
The preferred method used here is to employ classes in the implementation-specific
sun.*
namespace to do the unmapping. This is clearly not guaranteed to work on all J2SE implementations, and moreover it risks a JVM crash if the buffer instance is used after the umapping has been done. So use it WITH EXTREME CAUTION. If the relevant classes are not available at runtime, unmapping simply isn't done.See also Java Bug Java Bug #4724038.
Forcing garbage collection with
System.gc()
calls would be another possibility (may be added here at some point), but it's not guaranteed to do anything, and doing it too often would impact performance.- Since:
- 2 Dec 2014
- Author:
- Mark Taylor
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Field Summary
Fields Modifier and Type Field Description static java.lang.String
UNMAP_PROPERTY
Name of system property to control buffer unmapping ("startable.unmap").
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Constructor Summary
Constructors Constructor Description Unmapper()
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Method Summary
All Methods Static Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods Concrete Methods Modifier and Type Method Description static Unmapper
getInstance()
Returns an instance of this class.abstract boolean
unmap(java.nio.MappedByteBuffer buf)
Attempts to release the resources (mapped memory) used by a given MappedByteBuffer.
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Field Detail
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UNMAP_PROPERTY
public static final java.lang.String UNMAP_PROPERTY
Name of system property to control buffer unmapping ("startable.unmap"). Possible values are currently:- "
sun
": best-efforts sun.misc-based option - "
cleaner
": sun.misc.Cleaner-based option (available in Oracle java6 through java8) - "
unsafe
": sun.misc.Unsafe-based option (available in Oracle java9 and later?) - "
none
": no unmapping
sun
" if available, else fall back to none. You can also give the classname of anUnmapper
concrete subclass with a no-arg constructor.- See Also:
- Constant Field Values
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Method Detail
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unmap
public abstract boolean unmap(java.nio.MappedByteBuffer buf)
Attempts to release the resources (mapped memory) used by a given MappedByteBuffer. The buffer MUST NOT be read after this call has been made.- Parameters:
buf
- buffer- Returns:
- true if unmapping was successfully performed
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getInstance
public static Unmapper getInstance()
Returns an instance of this class.- Returns:
- instance
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