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dhruba borthakur commented on HADOOP-2606:
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If the namenode always deterministically choses the same datanode as the source
of a replication request and the source machine has a problem (bad disk, crc
error, read-only partition, etc.etc) then the replication request will never be
successful.
It could also be the case that maybe there is a non-transient network failure
between the source datanode and the target datanode. However, both the
datanodes are successfully sending heartbeats to the namenode. No CRCs error
occuring here. However, the replication request between these two datanodes
will keep on failing permanently.
Isn't it better if we can ensure that the namenodes tries different datanodes
as the source of a replication request?
> Namenode unstable when replicating 500k blocks at once
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HADOOP-2606
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2606
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: dfs
> Affects Versions: 0.14.3
> Reporter: Koji Noguchi
> Assignee: Konstantin Shvachko
> Fix For: 0.17.0
>
> Attachments: ReplicatorNew.patch, ReplicatorTestOld.patch
>
>
> We tried to decommission about 40 nodes at once, each containing 12k blocks.
> (about 500k total)
> (This also happened when we first tried to decommission 2 million blocks)
> Clients started experiencing "java.lang.RuntimeException:
> java.net.SocketTimeoutException: timed out waiting for rpc
> response" and namenode was in 100% cpu state.
> It was spending most of its time on one thread,
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" daemon prio=10 tid=0x0000002e10702800 nid=0x6718
> runnable [0x0000000041a42000..0x0000000041a42a30]
> java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSNamesystem.containingNodeList(FSNamesystem.java:2766)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSNamesystem.pendingTransfers(FSNamesystem.java:2870)
> - locked <0x0000002aa3cef720> (a
> org.apache.hadoop.dfs.UnderReplicatedBlocks)
> - locked <0x0000002aa3c42e28> (a org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSNamesystem)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSNamesystem.computeDatanodeWork(FSNamesystem.java:1928)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSNamesystem$ReplicationMonitor.run(FSNamesystem.java:1868)
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
> We confirmed that Namenode was not in the fullGC states when these problem
> happened.
> Also, dfsadmin -metasave was showing "Blocks waiting for replication" was
> decreasing very slowly.
> I believe this is not specific to decommission and same problem would happen
> if we lose one rack.
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