简介及其原理

DirectBuffer 通过免去中间交换的内存拷贝, 提升IO处理速度;也就是常说的zero-copy

• ByteBuffer
• HeapByteBuffer
• MappedByteBuffer
• MappedByteBuffer.map(int mode,long position,long size);

READ_ONLY	只读	试图修改得到的缓冲区将导致抛出 ReadOnlyBufferException
READ_WRITE	读/写	对得到的缓冲区的更改最终将传播到文件；该更改对映射到同一文件的其他程序不一定是可见的
PRIVATE	专用	对得到的缓冲区的更改不会传播到文件，并且该更改对映射到同一文件的其他程序也不是可见的；相反，会创建缓冲区已修改部分的专用副本

分配	java.nio.ByteBuffer.allocateDirect
释放	sun.nio.ch.DirectBuffer.cleaner().clean()

可以通过参数 -XX:MaxDirectMemorySize= 设置其可使用的最大内存大小，当未设置时默认同 -Xmx 的大小。

各种应用

BigMemory	http://terracotta.org/products/bigmemory	BigMemory stores “big” amounts of data in machine memory for ultra-fast access
DirectMemory	http://incubator.apache.org/directmemory/	Apache DirectMemory is a multi layered cache implementation featuring off-heap memory management (a-la BigMemory) to enable efficient handling of a large number of java objects without affecting jvm garbage collection performance
HugeCollections	https://code.google.com/p/vanilla-java/wiki/HugeCollections	If you want to efficiently store large collections of data in memory. This library can dramatically reduce Full GC times and reduce memory consumption as well

OutOfMemoryError

和 DirectBuffer 相关的内存泄漏参看Study_Java_HotSpot_OOME

参考资料

[1]. http://blog.csdn.net/fancyerii/article/details/7655451
[2]. http://lixjluck.iteye.com/blog/1130455
[3]. http://www.zhurouyoudu.com/index.php/archives/470/