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Fabrice Delaporte updated AMQ-2532:
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    Description: 
There seems to be a regression (works fine in 5.2.0) related to the fix for the 
following:

https://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/AMQ-2413

I think the intent of the original code was to prevent uncontrolled paging of 
pending messages. The doPageIn method is called in version 5.3.0 :
- each time a message is acked/committed
- each time the MemoryUsage is decreased

As a result, if you create a queue with, say, 1 000 000 messages in it, then 
start a consumer, the broker will try to page in all the messages from the 
store as consuming goes on (with default configuration values, 200 paged in 
messages for one consumed message minimum - I say minimum because if the 
MemoryUsage is decreased when you consume a message, then doPageIn is invoked 
again). Guaranteed OutOfMemoryError as in general consuming messages is slower 
than paging from store. I guess the same can occur when you have a fast 
producer and a slow consumer, without producer flow control.

I would say that in any case, the broker should never page in more messages 
than the maxPageSize attribute, plus the number of dispatched messages. More 
formally:

{code:java}
            int toPageIn = getMaxPageSize() - pagedInPendingDispatch.size();
{code}

And just to make sure we never get a negative value:

{code:java}
            int toPageIn = Math.max(0, getMaxPageSize() - 
pagedInPendingDispatch.size());
{code}

Note 1: this behavior is also exhibited by the background message expiration 
logic, that forces message pagination each time it is run. With big queues 
without consumers, by default you'll get 200 more messages paginated each time 
the expiration task is run. Eventually leading to broker resource exhaustion if 
no consumer comes into play in the near future with active producers queuing up 
messages.

Note 2: this may also be related to 
https://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/AMQ-2468

Workarounds:
- setting lazyDispatch to true fixes the problem for message consuming only
- background expiration can be disabled by setting expireMessagesPeriod to -1

Cheers,
Fabrice

  was:
There seems to be a regression (works fine in 5.2.0) related to the fix for the 
following:

https://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/AMQ-2413

I think the intent of the original code was to prevent uncontrolled paging of 
pending messages. The doPageIn method is called in version 5.3.0 :
- each time a message is acked/committed
- each time the MemoryUsage is decreased

As a result, if you create a queue with, say, 1 000 000 messages in it, then 
start a consumer, the broker will try to page in all the messages from the 
store as consuming goes on (with default configuration values, 200 paged in 
messages for one consumed message minimum - I say minimum because if the 
MemoryUsage is decreased when you consume a message, then doPageIn is invoked 
again). Guaranteed OutOfMemoryError as in general consuming messages is slower 
than paging from store. I guess the same can occur when you have a fast 
producer and a slow consumer, without producer flow control.

I would say that in any case, the broker should never page in more messages 
than the maxPageSize attribute, plus the number of dispatched messages. More 
formally:

{code:java}
            int toPageIn = getMaxPageSize() - pagedInPendingDispatch.size();
{code}

And just to make sure we never get a negative value:

{code:java}
            int toPageIn = Max(0, getMaxPageSize() - 
pagedInPendingDispatch.size());
{code}

Note 1: this behavior is also exhibited by the background message expiration 
logic, that forces message pagination each time it is run. With big queues 
without consumers, by default you'll get 200 more messages paginated each time 
the expiration task is run. Eventually leading to broker resource exhaustion if 
no consumer comes into play in the near future with active producers queuing up 
messages.

Note 2: this may also be related to 
https://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/AMQ-2468

Workarounds:
- setting lazyDispatch to true fixes the problem for message consuming only
- background expiration can be disabled by setting expireMessagesPeriod to -1

Cheers,
Fabrice


> Broker paging all available messages from store leading to resource exhaustion
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AMQ-2532
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/AMQ-2532
>             Project: ActiveMQ
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Broker
>    Affects Versions: 5.3.0
>         Environment: Java 1.6
>            Reporter: Fabrice Delaporte
>
> There seems to be a regression (works fine in 5.2.0) related to the fix for 
> the following:
> https://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/AMQ-2413
> I think the intent of the original code was to prevent uncontrolled paging of 
> pending messages. The doPageIn method is called in version 5.3.0 :
> - each time a message is acked/committed
> - each time the MemoryUsage is decreased
> As a result, if you create a queue with, say, 1 000 000 messages in it, then 
> start a consumer, the broker will try to page in all the messages from the 
> store as consuming goes on (with default configuration values, 200 paged in 
> messages for one consumed message minimum - I say minimum because if the 
> MemoryUsage is decreased when you consume a message, then doPageIn is invoked 
> again). Guaranteed OutOfMemoryError as in general consuming messages is 
> slower than paging from store. I guess the same can occur when you have a 
> fast producer and a slow consumer, without producer flow control.
> I would say that in any case, the broker should never page in more messages 
> than the maxPageSize attribute, plus the number of dispatched messages. More 
> formally:
> {code:java}
>             int toPageIn = getMaxPageSize() - pagedInPendingDispatch.size();
> {code}
> And just to make sure we never get a negative value:
> {code:java}
>             int toPageIn = Math.max(0, getMaxPageSize() - 
> pagedInPendingDispatch.size());
> {code}
> Note 1: this behavior is also exhibited by the background message expiration 
> logic, that forces message pagination each time it is run. With big queues 
> without consumers, by default you'll get 200 more messages paginated each 
> time the expiration task is run. Eventually leading to broker resource 
> exhaustion if no consumer comes into play in the near future with active 
> producers queuing up messages.
> Note 2: this may also be related to 
> https://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/AMQ-2468
> Workarounds:
> - setting lazyDispatch to true fixes the problem for message consuming only
> - background expiration can be disabled by setting expireMessagesPeriod to -1
> Cheers,
> Fabrice

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