freenet.support

Class MemoryLimitedChunk

java.lang.Object

freenet.support.MemoryLimitedChunk

public final class MemoryLimitedChunk
extends java.lang.Object

Represents a chunk of some limited resource, usually an estimate of bytes of memory in use, which has been allocated to a MemoryLimitedJob. Can be released but not added to.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
long	release() Should be called when the caller has finished using the resource.
long	release(long amount) Should be called when the caller is now using a smaller amount of the resource, e.g.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

release

public long release()

Should be called when the caller has finished using the resource. Usually when a MemoryLimitedJob has stopped using a large temporary buffer, and has made it GC'able, that is, there are no more (non-weak) pointers to it.

release

public long release(long amount)

Should be called when the caller is now using a smaller amount of the resource, e.g. we go from a big buffer to a small buffer. Note that this is irreversible.