We have swap disabled. Can death by paging still happen?
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Benedict Elliott Smith <
belliottsm...@datastax.com> wrote:
> That sounds a lot like death by paging.
>
>
> On 27 February 2014 16:29, Frank Ng <fnt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I just caught that a node was down based on running nodetool status on a
>> different node. I tried to ssh into the downed node at that time and it
>> was very slow logging on. Looking at the gc.log file, there was a ParNew
>> that only took 0.09 secs. Yet the overall application threads stop time is
>> 315 seconds (5 minutes). Our cluster is handling alot of read requests.
>>
>> If there were network hiccups, would that cause a delay in the Cassandra
>> process when it tries to get to a safepoint? I assume Cassandra has
>> threads running with lots of network activity and maybe taking a long time
>> to reach a safepoint.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Frank
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 4:24 AM, Joel Samuelsson <
>> samuelsson.j...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> What happens if a ParNew is triggered while CMS is running? Will it wait
>>> for the CMS to finish? If so, that would be the eplanation of our long
>>> ParNew above.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Joel
>>>
>>>
>>> 2014-02-20 16:29 GMT+01:00 Joel Samuelsson <samuelsson.j...@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> Hi Frank,
>>>>
>>>> We got a (quite) long GC pause today on 2.0.5:
>>>> INFO [ScheduledTasks:1] 2014-02-20 13:51:14,528 GCInspector.java (line
>>>> 116) GC for ParNew: 1627 ms for 1 collections, 425562984 used; max is
>>>> 4253024256
>>>> INFO [ScheduledTasks:1] 2014-02-20 13:51:14,542 GCInspector.java (line
>>>> 116) GC for ConcurrentMarkSweep: 3703 ms for 2 collections, 434394920 used;
>>>> max is 4253024256
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately it's a production cluster so I have no additional
>>>> GC-logging enabled. This may be an indication that upgrading is not the
>>>> (complete) solution.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Joel
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2014-02-17 13:41 GMT+01:00 Benedict Elliott Smith <
>>>> belliottsm...@datastax.com>:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Ondrej,
>>>>>
>>>>> It's possible you were hit by the problems in this thread before, but
>>>>> it looks potentially like you may have other issues. Of course it may be
>>>>> that on G1 you have one issue and CMS another, but 27s is extreme even for
>>>>> G1, so it seems unlikely. If you're hitting these pause times in CMS and
>>>>> you get some more output from the safepoint tracing, please do contribute
>>>>> as I would love to get to the bottom of that, however is it possible
>>>>> you're
>>>>> experiencing paging activity? Have you made certain the VM memory is
>>>>> locked
>>>>> (and preferably that paging is entirely disabled, as the bloom filters and
>>>>> other memory won't be locked, although that shouldn't cause pauses during
>>>>> GC)
>>>>>
>>>>> Note that mmapped file accesses and other native work shouldn't in
>>>>> anyway inhibit GC activity or other safepoint pause times, unless there's
>>>>> a
>>>>> bug in the VM. These threads will simply enter a safepoint as they return
>>>>> to the VM execution context, and are considered safe for the duration they
>>>>> are outside.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 17 February 2014 12:30, Ondřej Černoš <cern...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> we tried to switch to G1 because we observed this behaviour on CMS
>>>>>> too (27 seconds pause in G1 is quite an advise not to use it). Pauses
>>>>>> with
>>>>>> CMS were not easily traceable - JVM stopped even without stop-the-world
>>>>>> pause scheduled (defragmentation, remarking). We thought the
>>>>>> go-to-safepoint waiting time might have been involved (we saw waiting for
>>>>>> safepoint resolution) - especially because access to mmpaped files is not
>>>>>> preemptive, afaik, but it doesn't explain tens of seconds waiting times,
>>>>>> even slow IO should read our sstables into memory in much less time. We
>>>>>> switched to G1 out of desperation - and to try different code paths - not
>>>>>> that we'd thought it was a great idea. So I think we were hit by the
>>>>>> problem discussed in this thread, just the G1 report wasn't very clear,
>>>>>> sorry.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> regards,
>>>>>> ondrej
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Benedict Elliott Smith <
>>>>>> belliottsm...@datastax.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ondrej,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It seems like your issue is much less difficult to diagnose: your
>>>>>>> collection times are long. At least, the pause you printed the time for
>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>> all attributable to the G1 pause.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Note that G1 has not generally performed well with Cassandra in our
>>>>>>> testing. There are a number of changes going in soon that may change
>>>>>>> that,
>>>>>>> but for the time being it is advisable to stick with CMS. With tuning
>>>>>>> you
>>>>>>> can no doubt bring your pauses down considerably.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 17 February 2014 10:17, Ondřej Černoš <cern...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> we are seeing the same kind of long pauses in Cassandra. We tried
>>>>>>>> to switch CMS to G1 without positive result. The stress test is read
>>>>>>>> heavy,
>>>>>>>> 2 datacenters, 6 nodes, 400reqs/sec on one datacenter. We see spikes in
>>>>>>>> latency on 99.99 percentil and higher, caused by threads being stopped
>>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>>> JVM.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The GC in G1 looks like this:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> {Heap before GC invocations=4073 (full 1):
>>>>>>>> garbage-first heap total 8388608K, used 3602914K
>>>>>>>> [0x00000005f5c00000, 0x00000007f5c00000, 0x00000007f5c00000)
>>>>>>>> region size 4096K, 142 young (581632K), 11 survivors (45056K)
>>>>>>>> compacting perm gen total 28672K, used 27428K [0x00000007f5c00000,
>>>>>>>> 0x00000007f7800000, 0x0000000800000000)
>>>>>>>> the space 28672K, 95% used [0x00000007f5c00000,
>>>>>>>> 0x00000007f76c9108, 0x00000007f76c9200, 0x00000007f7800000)
>>>>>>>> No shared spaces configured.
>>>>>>>> 2014-02-17T04:44:16.385+0100: 222346.218: [GC pause (G1 Evacuation
>>>>>>>> Pause) (young)
>>>>>>>> Desired survivor size 37748736 bytes, new threshold 15 (max 15)
>>>>>>>> - age 1: 17213632 bytes, 17213632 total
>>>>>>>> - age 2: 19391208 bytes, 36604840 total
>>>>>>>> , 0.1664300 secs]
>>>>>>>> [Parallel Time: 163.9 ms, GC Workers: 2]
>>>>>>>> [GC Worker Start (ms): Min: 222346218.3, Avg: 222346218.3,
>>>>>>>> Max: 222346218.3, Diff: 0.0]
>>>>>>>> [Ext Root Scanning (ms): Min: 6.0, Avg: 6.9, Max: 7.7, Diff:
>>>>>>>> 1.7, Sum: 13.7]
>>>>>>>> [Update RS (ms): Min: 20.4, Avg: 21.3, Max: 22.1, Diff: 1.7,
>>>>>>>> Sum: 42.6]
>>>>>>>> [Processed Buffers: Min: 49, Avg: 60.0, Max: 71, Diff: 22,
>>>>>>>> Sum: 120]
>>>>>>>> [Scan RS (ms): Min: 23.2, Avg: 23.2, Max: 23.3, Diff: 0.1,
>>>>>>>> Sum: 46.5]
>>>>>>>> [Object Copy (ms): Min: 112.3, Avg: 112.3, Max: 112.4, Diff:
>>>>>>>> 0.1, Sum: 224.6]
>>>>>>>> [Termination (ms): Min: 0.0, Avg: 0.0, Max: 0.1, Diff: 0.0,
>>>>>>>> Sum: 0.1]
>>>>>>>> [GC Worker Other (ms): Min: 0.0, Avg: 0.0, Max: 0.0, Diff:
>>>>>>>> 0.0, Sum: 0.1]
>>>>>>>> [GC Worker Total (ms): Min: 163.8, Avg: 163.8, Max: 163.8,
>>>>>>>> Diff: 0.0, Sum: 327.6]
>>>>>>>> [GC Worker End (ms): Min: 222346382.1, Avg: 222346382.1, Max:
>>>>>>>> 222346382.1, Diff: 0.0]
>>>>>>>> [Code Root Fixup: 0.0 ms]
>>>>>>>> [Clear CT: 0.4 ms]
>>>>>>>> [Other: 2.1 ms]
>>>>>>>> [Choose CSet: 0.0 ms]
>>>>>>>> [Ref Proc: 1.1 ms]
>>>>>>>> [Ref Enq: 0.0 ms]
>>>>>>>> [Free CSet: 0.4 ms]
>>>>>>>> [Eden: 524.0M(524.0M)->0.0B(476.0M) Survivors: 44.0M->68.0M
>>>>>>>> Heap: 3518.5M(8192.0M)->3018.5M(8192.0M)]
>>>>>>>> Heap after GC invocations=4074 (full 1):
>>>>>>>> garbage-first heap total 8388608K, used 3090914K [0x00000005f5c00000,
>>>>>>>> 0x00000007f5c00000, 0x00000007f5c00000)
>>>>>>>> region size 4096K, 17 young (69632K), 17 survivors (69632K)
>>>>>>>> compacting perm gen total 28672K, used 27428K [0x00000007f5c00000,
>>>>>>>> 0x00000007f7800000, 0x0000000800000000)
>>>>>>>> the space 28672K, 95% used [0x00000007f5c00000, 0x00000007f76c9108,
>>>>>>>> 0x00000007f76c9200, 0x00000007f7800000)
>>>>>>>> No shared spaces configured.
>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>> [Times: user=0.35 sys=0.00, real=27.58 secs]
>>>>>>>> 222346.219: G1IncCollectionPause [ 111 0
>>>>>>>> 0 ] [ 0 0 0 0 27586 ] 0
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> And the total thime for which application threads were stopped is
>>>>>>>> 27.58 seconds.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> CMS behaves in a similar manner. We thought it would be GC, waiting
>>>>>>>> for mmaped files being read from disk (the thread cannot reach
>>>>>>>> safepoint
>>>>>>>> during this operation), but it doesn't explain the huge time.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We'll try jhiccup to see if it provides any additional information.
>>>>>>>> The test was done on mixed aws/openstack environment, openjdk 1.7.0_45,
>>>>>>>> cassandra 1.2.11. Upgrading to 2.0.x is no option for us.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> regards,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ondrej cernos
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Frank Ng <fnt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Sorry, I have not had a chance to file a JIRA ticket. We have not
>>>>>>>>> been able to resolve the issue. But since Joel mentioned that
>>>>>>>>> upgrading to
>>>>>>>>> Cassandra 2.0.X solved it for them, we may need to upgrade. We are
>>>>>>>>> currently on Java 1.7 and Cassandra 1.2.8
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Keith Wright <
>>>>>>>>> kwri...@nanigans.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> You’re running 2.0.* in production? May I ask what C* version
>>>>>>>>>> and OS? Any hardware details would be appreciated as well. Thx!
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> From: Joel Samuelsson <samuelsson.j...@gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>>> Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org" <user@cassandra.apache.org>
>>>>>>>>>> Date: Thursday, February 13, 2014 at 11:39 AM
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> To: "user@cassandra.apache.org" <user@cassandra.apache.org>
>>>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: Intermittent long application pauses on nodes
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> We have had similar issues and upgrading C* to 2.0.x and Java to
>>>>>>>>>> 1.7 seems to have helped our issues.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> 2014-02-13 Keith Wright <kwri...@nanigans.com>:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Frank did you ever file a ticket for this issue or find the root
>>>>>>>>>>> cause? I believe we are seeing the same issues when attempting to
>>>>>>>>>>> bootstrap.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> From: Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com>
>>>>>>>>>>> Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org" <user@cassandra.apache.org
>>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>>> Date: Monday, February 3, 2014 at 6:10 PM
>>>>>>>>>>> To: "user@cassandra.apache.org" <user@cassandra.apache.org>
>>>>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: Intermittent long application pauses on nodes
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Benedict Elliott Smith <
>>>>>>>>>>> belliottsm...@datastax.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> It's possible that this is a JVM issue, but if so there may be
>>>>>>>>>>>> some remedial action we can take anyway. There are some more flags
>>>>>>>>>>>> we
>>>>>>>>>>>> should add, but we can discuss that once you open a ticket. If you
>>>>>>>>>>>> could
>>>>>>>>>>>> include the strange JMX error as well, that might be helpful.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> It would be appreciated if you could inform this thread of the
>>>>>>>>>>> JIRA ticket number, for the benefit of the community and google
>>>>>>>>>>> searchers.
>>>>>>>>>>> :)
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> =Rob
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
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