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Ryan Blue commented on AVRO-1773: --------------------------------- I'm marking this a duplicate of AVRO-1781 since we've been having more discussion over there (even though this was filed first). > Infinite loop caused by race condition > -------------------------------------- > > Key: AVRO-1773 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1773 > Project: Avro > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: java > Affects Versions: 1.7.7 > Reporter: vincent ye > Priority: Critical > Fix For: 1.7.8, 1.8.0 > > > org.apache.avro.LogicalTypes#fromSchemaIgnoreInvalid lookups and update > CACHE. CACHE is backed by hashmap without synchronization. In a multithreaded > environment, it causes a infinite loop in hashmap lookup. The race condition > problem is described in the following blog > http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2009/06/beautiful-race-condition.html. > I experience this infinite loop in Spark jobs with high concurrency. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)