• GC Problems in Spark Streaming Under Light Workloads Liao Jiayi Liao Jiayi #JVM

    A Spark troubleshooting case involving a simple job that reads from Kafka, applies tagging operators, and writes to Hive.

  • Spark - Cleaning Up Objects with WeakReference Liao Jiayi Liao Jiayi #JVM#Spark#Apache Spark

    A Stack Overflow question about when Spark reclaims Accumulator and Broadcast variables led me to explore how ContextCleaner uses WeakReference and a reference queue to clean up unused objects.

  • java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Map failed Liao Jiayi Liao Jiayi #JVM

    An incident in which Map Failed caused a JVM out-of-memory error, with its causes and remedies.

  • Understanding hs_err_pid.log Liao Jiayi Liao Jiayi #Memory#Linux#JVM

    A guide to JVM fatal-error logs, including thread states, native frames, and memory information.