diff --git a/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/CacheRecycler.java b/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/CacheRecycler.java
index f729241763a..e3f1084a50f 100644
--- a/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/CacheRecycler.java
+++ b/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/CacheRecycler.java
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 
 package org.elasticsearch.common;
 
+import org.elasticsearch.common.compress.lzf.BufferRecycler;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.trove.ExtTDoubleObjectHashMap;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.trove.ExtTHashMap;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.trove.ExtTLongObjectHashMap;
@@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ import java.util.Deque;
 public class CacheRecycler {
 
     public static void clear() {
+        BufferRecycler.clean();
         doubleObjectHashMap.remove();
         longObjectHashMap.remove();
         longLongHashMap.remove();
diff --git a/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/compress/lzf/BufferRecycler.java b/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/compress/lzf/BufferRecycler.java
index 20924e0171b..440b013f50c 100644
--- a/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/compress/lzf/BufferRecycler.java
+++ b/modules/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/compress/lzf/BufferRecycler.java
@@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ public class BufferRecycler {
         return br;
     }
 
+    public static void clean() {
+        _recyclerRef.remove();
+    }
+
     /*
     ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
     // Buffers for encoding (output)