[SLING-11462] Reduce memory requirements by not allocating a 256 MiB buffer

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: Feature Model Launcher 1.2.2
• Component/s: Feature Model
• Assignee: Robert Munteanu
• Reporter: Robert Munteanu
• Created: 18/Jul/22 12:50
• Updated: 09/Dec/22 05:58
• Resolved: 18/Jul/22 21:34

Description

The Feature Launcher allocated a 256 MiB array unconditionally, see [1]. It is only used when feature model archives are read in.

Its usefulness is questionable and we should fall back to using java.nio.file.Files#copy instead.

[1]: https://github.com/apache/sling-org-apache-sling-feature-launcher/blob/36b7fe229780b06f81db0a97f2e8e86726a3158c/src/main/java/org/apache/sling/feature/launcher/impl/FeatureProcessor.java#L111

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #40
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #41