diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/kafka/api/FetchRequest.scala b/core/src/main/scala/kafka/api/FetchRequest.scala
index ac74931..19c961e 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/kafka/api/FetchRequest.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/kafka/api/FetchRequest.scala
@@ -201,5 +201,9 @@ class FetchRequestBuilder() {
     this
   }
 
-  def build() = FetchRequest(versionId, correlationId.getAndIncrement, clientId, replicaId, maxWait, minBytes, requestMap.toMap)
+  def build() = {
+    val fetchRequest = FetchRequest(versionId, correlationId.getAndIncrement, clientId, replicaId, maxWait, minBytes, requestMap.toMap)
+    requestMap.clear()
+    fetchRequest
+  }
 }
diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/kafka/server/AbstractFetcherThread.scala b/core/src/main/scala/kafka/server/AbstractFetcherThread.scala
index 0b286f0..1ccf578 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/kafka/server/AbstractFetcherThread.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/kafka/server/AbstractFetcherThread.scala
@@ -46,6 +46,11 @@ abstract class AbstractFetcherThread(name: String, clientId: String, sourceBroke
   private val metricId = new ClientIdAndBroker(clientId, brokerInfo)
   val fetcherStats = new FetcherStats(metricId)
   val fetcherLagStats = new FetcherLagStats(metricId)
+  val fetchRequestBuilder = new FetchRequestBuilder().
+          clientId(clientId).
+          replicaId(fetcherBrokerId).
+          maxWait(maxWait).
+          minBytes(minBytes)
 
   /* callbacks to be defined in subclass */
 
@@ -65,12 +70,6 @@ abstract class AbstractFetcherThread(name: String, clientId: String, sourceBroke
   }
 
   override def doWork() {
-    val fetchRequestBuilder = new FetchRequestBuilder().
-            clientId(clientId).
-            replicaId(fetcherBrokerId).
-            maxWait(maxWait).
-            minBytes(minBytes)
-
     partitionMapLock.lock()
     try {
       while (partitionMap.isEmpty)