[
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2664?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel
]
Aditya Auradkar reassigned KAFKA-2664:
--------------------------------------
Assignee: Aditya Auradkar (was: Onur Karaman)
> Adding a new metric with several pre-existing metrics is very expensive
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: KAFKA-2664
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2664
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Joel Koshy
> Assignee: Aditya Auradkar
> Fix For: 0.9.0.1
>
>
> I know the summary sounds expected, but we recently ran into a socket server
> request queue backup that I suspect was caused by a combination of improperly
> implemented applications that reconnect with a different (random) client-id
> each time; and the fact that for quotas we now register a new quota
> metric-set for each client-id.
> So here is what happened: a broker went down and a handful of other brokers
> starting seeing queue times go up significantly. This caused the request
> queue to backup, which caused socket timeouts and a further deluge of
> reconnects. The only way we could get out of this was to fire-wall the broker
> and downgrade to a version without quotas (or I think it would have worked to
> just restart the broker).
> My guess is that there were a ton of pre-existing client-id metrics. I don’t
> know for sure but I’m basing that on the fact that there were several new
> unique client-ids showing up in the public access logs and request local
> times for fetches started going up inexplicably. (It would have been useful
> to have a metric for the number of metrics.) So it turns out that in the
> above scenario (with say 50k pre-existing client-ids), the avg local time for
> fetch can go up to the order of 50-100ms (at least with tests on a linux box)
> largely due to the time taken to create new metrics; and that’s because we
> use a copy-on-write map underneath. If you have enough (say, hundreds) of
> clients re-connecting at the same time with new client-id's, that can cause
> the request queues to start backing up and the overall queuing system to
> become unstable; and the line starts to spill out of the building.
> I think this is a fairly new scenario with quotas - i.e., I don’t think the
> past per-X metrics (per-topic for e.g.,) creation rate would ever come this
> close.
> To be clear, the clients are clearly doing the wrong thing but I think the
> broker can and should protect itself adequately against such rogue scenarios.
--
This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA
(v6.3.4#6332)
