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Motivation: The current build is showing potential leaks in the HTTP/2 tests that use Http2TestUtil.FrameCountDown, which copies the buffers when it receives them from the decoder. The leak detecor sees this copy as the source of a leak. It would be better all around to just retain, rather than copying the buffer. This should help to lower the overall memory footprint of the tests as well as potentially getting rid of the reported "leaks". Modifications: Modified Http2TestUtil to use ByteBuf.retain() everywhere that was previously calling ByteBuf.copy(). Result: Smaller memory footprint for tests and hopefully getting rid of reported leaks.
Netty Project
Netty is an asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients.
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How to build
For the detailed information about building and developing Netty, please visit the developer guide. This page only gives very basic information.
You require the following to build Netty:
- Latest stable Oracle JDK 7
- Latest stable Apache Maven
- If you are on Linux, you need additional development packages installed on your system, because you'll build the native transport.
Note that this is build-time requirement. JDK 5 (for 3.x) or 6 (for 4.0+) is enough to run your Netty-based application.
Branches to look
The 'master' branch is where the development of the latest major version lives on. The development of all other versions takes place in each branch whose name is identical to <majorVersion>.<minorVersion>. For example, the development of 3.9 and 4.0 resides in the branch '3.9' and the branch '4.0' respectively.