Hi,

This might actually be a regression, maybe some initialization code got n^2
unintentionally, and therefore goes wild when used with a large number of
actors. I opened a ticket:https://github.com/akka/akka/issues/18613

-Endre

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 12:47 PM, gutzeit <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear list members,
>
> Recently we have upgraded to Akka 2.3.14 and I've noticed a very strange
> behaviour.
>
> Right after startup we start receiving messages on our production
> platform, and I the logs I see that it takes several minutes for actors
> start processing messages.
> Actors in question are part of routers that are defined in the following
> way:
>
> /usersRouter {
>   router = consistent-hashing-pool
>   nr-of-instances = 100000
>   virtual-nodes-factor = 10
> }
> /contactsRouter {
>   router = consistent-hashing-pool
>   nr-of-instances = 100000
>   virtual-nodes-factor = 10
> }
>
> Doing jstack in the period that no messages are processed, the only weird
> thing i can see is the following:
>
> java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE
>         at scala.collection.Iterator$class.foreach(Iterator.scala:727)
>         at scala.collection.AbstractIterator.foreach(Iterator.scala:1157)
>         at
> scala.collection.IterableLike$class.foreach(IterableLike.scala:72)
>         at scala.collection.AbstractIterable.foreach(Iterable.scala:54)
>         at
> scala.collection.TraversableLike$class.filter(TraversableLike.scala:263)
>         at
> scala.collection.AbstractTraversable.filter(Traversable.scala:105)
>         at
> scala.collection.TraversableLike$class.filterNot(TraversableLike.scala:274)
>         at
> scala.collection.AbstractTraversable.filterNot(Traversable.scala:105)
>         at
> akka.routing.RoutedActorCell$$anonfun$1.apply(RoutedActorCell.scala:77)
>         at
> akka.routing.RoutedActorCell$$anonfun$1.apply(RoutedActorCell.scala:77)
>         at
> scala.collection.TraversableOnce$$anonfun$foldLeft$1.apply(TraversableOnce.scala:144)
>         at
> scala.collection.TraversableOnce$$anonfun$foldLeft$1.apply(TraversableOnce.scala:144)
>         at scala.collection.Iterator$class.foreach(Iterator.scala:727)
>         at scala.collection.AbstractIterator.foreach(Iterator.scala:1157)
>         at
> scala.collection.IterableLike$class.foreach(IterableLike.scala:72)
>         at scala.collection.AbstractIterable.foreach(Iterable.scala:54)
>         at
> scala.collection.TraversableOnce$class.foldLeft(TraversableOnce.scala:144)
>         at
> scala.collection.AbstractTraversable.foldLeft(Traversable.scala:105)
>         at
> akka.routing.RoutedActorCell.removeRoutees(RoutedActorCell.scala:77)
>         at akka.routing.ResizablePoolCell.resize(Resizer.scala:288)
>         at akka.routing.ResizablePoolCell.preSuperStart(Resizer.scala:267)
>         at akka.routing.RoutedActorCell.start(RoutedActorCell.scala:123)
>         at akka.routing.RoutedActorCell.start(RoutedActorCell.scala:41)
>         at
> akka.actor.RepointableActorRef.point(RepointableActorRef.scala:105)
>         at akka.actor.ActorCell.handleSupervise(ActorCell.scala:614)
>         at akka.actor.ActorCell.supervise(ActorCell.scala:606)
>         at akka.actor.ActorCell.invokeAll$1(ActorCell.scala:463)
>         at akka.actor.ActorCell.systemInvoke(ActorCell.scala:478)
>         at
> akka.dispatch.Mailbox.processAllSystemMessages(Mailbox.scala:263)
>         at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.run(Mailbox.scala:219)
>         at
> akka.dispatch.ForkJoinExecutorConfigurator$AkkaForkJoinTask.exec(AbstractDispatcher.scala:397)
>         at
> scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinTask.doExec(ForkJoinTask.java:260)
>         at
> scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinPool$WorkQueue.runTask(ForkJoinPool.java:1339)
>         at
> scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinPool.runWorker(ForkJoinPool.java:1979)
>         at
> scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinWorkerThread.run(ForkJoinWorkerThread.java:107)
>
>
> After that period of "non-processing" is over, that stack trace does not
> appear anymore.
>
> My best guess is that it is somehow related to latest changes to
> consistent-hashing pool that was done lately, but then again its just a
> guess.
>
> Does anyone have any clue what is going on ?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
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