apache/spark — pull request #3372 by JoshRosen (2014-11-19 22:51:08+00:00)
Title: [SPARK-4495] Fix memory leaks in JobProgressListener

This commit fixes a memory leak in JobProgressListener that I introduced in SPARK-2321 and adds a testing framework to ensure that it’s very difficult to inadvertently introduce new memory leaks.

This solution might be overkill, but the main idea is to partition JobProgressListener's state into three buckets: collections that should be empty once Spark is idle, collections that _always_ must obey some hard size limit, and collections that have a soft size limit (they can grow arbitrarily large when Spark is active but must shrink to fit within some bound after Spark becomes idle).

Based on this, we can write fairly generic tests that run workloads that submit more than `spark.ui.retainedStages` stages and `spark.ui.retainedJobs` jobs then check that these various collections' sizes obey these contracts.