Growing ByteBuffer

Question

Has anyone has ever seen an implementation of java.nio.ByteBuffer that will grow dynamically if a putX() call overruns the capacity?

The reason I want to do it this way

Answer 1

Another option is to use direct memory with a large buffer. This consumes virtual memory but only uses as much physical memory as you use (by page which is typically 4K)

So if you allocate a buffer of 1 MB, it comsumes 1 MB of virtual memory, but the only OS gives physical pages to the application which is actually uses.

The effect is you see your application using alot of virtual memory but a relatively small amount of resident memory.