From 8d9bfe87e5145489fade30855609019076d3aa69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jordan Sheinfeld <jordan.sheinfeld@taboola.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2019 14:06:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed possible memory leak in ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor

---
 .../src/main/java/com/netflix/hystrix/util/HystrixTimer.java     | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/hystrix-core/src/main/java/com/netflix/hystrix/util/HystrixTimer.java b/hystrix-core/src/main/java/com/netflix/hystrix/util/HystrixTimer.java
index 3c10e6276..f19d7be7a 100644
--- a/hystrix-core/src/main/java/com/netflix/hystrix/util/HystrixTimer.java
+++ b/hystrix-core/src/main/java/com/netflix/hystrix/util/HystrixTimer.java
@@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ public Thread newThread(Runnable r) {
             }
 
             executor = new ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor(coreSize, threadFactory);
+            executor.setRemoveOnCancelPolicy(true);
             initialized = true;
         }