There are MANY JDKS installed already. Oracle JDKs OpenJDKs AdoptOpenJDKs
- they are all already there.

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/JDK+Installation+Matrix

On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 11:47 AM Arnaud Héritier <[email protected]>
wrote:

> It has to be discussed with infra.
> I am not sure which distro is used.
> It's a Private Build of openJDK 8 (today CloudBees CI doesn't support
> something else than Java 8 - no comment)
> I don't have the feeling for now (with the data I reviewed) that it's a
> memory / GC issue (it could create disconnections under high load)
> Here the stability issue occurs even when the controller does nothing (the
> controller cannot ping the agent or vice and versa) and it seems to impact
> more the linux agents than the windows ones (it's a pity)
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 12:06 AM Tibor Digana <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Can you install AdoptOpenJdk for the Jenkins controller?
>> It contains Eclipse OpenJ9 Garbage Collector and it significantly
>> decreases
>> memory consumption of the application due to the meta space goes to the
>> disk.
>> You should save 40 - 75% out of 3GB.
>> I used G1, Shenandoah, ZGC and Eclipse OpenJ9 which saved the most memory.
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 9:23 AM Arnaud Héritier <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > yes for the controller it depends of its size (number of jobs and types
>> of
>> > jobs) but here we are fine it seems with our 3Gb
>> >
>> > * Java
>> > - Version: 1.8.0&#95;292
>> > - Maximum memory: 3.00 GB (3221225472)
>> > - Allocated memory: 3.00 GB (3221225472)
>> > - Free memory: 750.15 MB (786591664)
>> > - In-use memory: 2.27 GB (2434633808)
>> > - GC strategy: G1
>> > - Available CPUs: 2
>> >
>> > For agents I reduced the memory allocated to the agent process but it
>> > doesn't help much (it seems - even if it is still a good thing to do)
>> >
>> > What is strange is that I see our agents sometimes disconnected even
>> when
>> > we have no activity on the jenkins controller
>> >
>> > Sadly jenkins is deployed on Apache Tomcat thus I cannot get access to
>> its
>> > logs
>> >
>> > In general the connection lost is detected by what we call the
>> PingThread (
>> >
>> >
>> https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/system-administration/monitoring/#ping-thread
>> > ) but not only
>> >
>> > https://ci-maven.apache.org/log/all
>> >
>> > For example it was few minutes ago we got 3 agents disconnected while
>> > nothing was running
>> >
>> > 2021-07-22 06:58:21.769+0000 [id=106291] INFO
>> > hudson.slaves.ChannelPinger$1#onDead:
>> > Ping failed. Terminating the channel maven4.
>> > java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException: Ping started at 1626936861769
>> hasn't
>> > completed by 1626937101769
>> > at hudson.remoting.PingThread.ping(PingThread.java:134)
>> > at hudson.remoting.PingThread.run(PingThread.java:90)
>> > 2021-07-22 06:58:21.778+0000 [id=106292] INFO
>> > hudson.slaves.ChannelPinger$1#onDead:
>> > Ping failed. Terminating the channel maven3.
>> > java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException: Ping started at 1626936861777
>> hasn't
>> > completed by 1626937101778
>> > at hudson.remoting.PingThread.ping(PingThread.java:134)
>> > at hudson.remoting.PingThread.run(PingThread.java:90)
>> > 2021-07-22 06:58:21.983+0000 [id=106295] INFO
>> > hudson.slaves.ChannelPinger$1#onDead:
>> > Ping failed. Terminating the channel maven5.
>> > java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException: Ping started at 1626936861982
>> hasn't
>> > completed by 1626937101983
>> > at hudson.remoting.PingThread.ping(PingThread.java:134)
>> > at hudson.remoting.PingThread.run(PingThread.java:90)
>> >
>> > @Gavin McDonald <[email protected]> In terms of network, is it the
>> same
>> > environment we use today compared to the ci-builds.apache.org
>> environment
>> > ?
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 11:48 PM Tibor Digana <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > In my company, I also used 1GB for Xmx of Java Heap for the Jenkins
>> JVM
>> > and
>> > > it was enough.
>> > > The subprocesses like Maven need to have much more memory to allocate
>> for
>> > > themself rather than Jenkins JVM.
>> > > T
>> > >
>> > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 6:38 PM Arnaud Héritier <[email protected]>
>> > > wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > I am looking at our builds and I try to understand why our agents
>> are
>> > > often
>> > > > disconnected during the builds.
>> > > > We have in general a stacktrace like
>> > > >
>> > > > maven6 was marked offline: Connection was broken:
>> java.io.IOException:
>> > > > Pipe closed after 0 cycles
>> > > >         at
>> > > >
>> > >
>> >
>> org.apache.sshd.common.channel.ChannelPipedInputStream.read(ChannelPipedInputStream.java:118)
>> > > >         at
>> > > >
>> > >
>> >
>> org.apache.sshd.common.channel.ChannelPipedInputStream.read(ChannelPipedInputStream.java:101)
>> > > >         at
>> > > >
>> > >
>> >
>> hudson.remoting.FlightRecorderInputStream.read(FlightRecorderInputStream.java:92)
>> > > >         at
>> > > >
>> >
>> hudson.remoting.ChunkedInputStream.readHeader(ChunkedInputStream.java:73)
>> > > >         at
>> > > >
>> > >
>> >
>> hudson.remoting.ChunkedInputStream.readUntilBreak(ChunkedInputStream.java:103)
>> > > >         at
>> > > >
>> > >
>> >
>> hudson.remoting.ChunkedCommandTransport.readBlock(ChunkedCommandTransport.java:39)
>> > > >         at
>> > > >
>> > >
>> >
>> hudson.remoting.AbstractSynchronousByteArrayCommandTransport.read(AbstractSynchronousByteArrayCommandTransport.java:34)
>> > > >         at
>> > > >
>> > >
>> >
>> hudson.remoting.SynchronousCommandTransport$ReaderThread.run(SynchronousCommandTransport.java:63)
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > As far I can see we are using 16Gb "hosts" for linux agents
>> > > >
>> > > > Something very strange is that the jenkins agent (this small
>> component
>> > > > doing the link between the build host and the controller) is
>> configured
>> > > > with `-Xms8g -Xmx8g` thus we are reserving for it 50% of the server
>> mem
>> > > > (even more because of the non-heap)
>> > > > This one in general should require in general really less. 1Gb is
>> > > already a
>> > > > lot from my exp.
>> > > > Due to this, the OS can see it has the biggest process on the host
>> and
>> > > > decide to kill it when the rest of the memory is used by the build.
>> > > > I think we should decrease this value.
>> > > > (I can do it but I don't know how was configured the ci.apache.org
>> > > agents
>> > > > and I would like to not add more issue if this setting was here in
>> the
>> > > past
>> > > >
>> > > > I don't think it is the root cause of our instabilities (at least
>> all)
>> > > and
>> > > > there is something else I have to find but it's a cheap fix to try
>> > > >
>> > > > FYI our agents VMs are ~like this today:
>> > > >
>> > > > - Java
>> > > > + Home: `/usr/local/asfpackages/java/oraclejdk-1.8.0-291/jre`
>> > > > + Vendor: Oracle Corporation
>> > > > + Version: 1.8.0&#95;291
>> > > > + Maximum memory: 7.67 GB (8232370176)
>> > > > + Allocated memory: 7.67 GB (8232370176)
>> > > > + Free memory: 6.03 GB (6470953760)
>> > > > + In-use memory: 1.64 GB (1761416416)
>> > > > + GC strategy: ParallelGC
>> > > > + Available CPUs: 4
>> > > >
>> > > > 8Gb is reserved, 1Gb is used (because the GC does nothing as the
>> Free
>> > mem
>> > > > is high)
>> > > >
>> > > > I would be in favor to try to launch them with -Xms128m
>> > > > -Xmx1g -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:+UseStringDeduplication
>> > > >
>> > > > I think it's enough customization to start with
>> > > >
>> > > > Cheers
>> > > >
>> > > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 1:28 PM Arnaud Héritier <
>> [email protected]>
>> > > > wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > > I am not sure about the setup
>> > > > > AFAICS we don't use any JDK installer (
>> > > > > https://ci-maven.apache.org/configureTools/ ) thus I suppose that
>> > the
>> > > > > different JDKs are supposed to be installed directly on the agent
>> ?
>> > > > > I am not sure how it was done on the previous environment
>> > > > >
>> > > > > On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 5:30 PM Tibor Digana <
>> [email protected]
>> > >
>> > > > > wrote:
>> > > > >
>> > > > >> The new CI  system has the following issue:
>> > > > >>
>> > > > >> /home/jenkins/tools/java/latest1.7/bin/java: not found
>> > > > >>
>> > > > >>
>> > > > >>
>> > > >
>> > >
>> >
>> https://ci-maven.apache.org/job/Maven/job/maven-box/job/maven-surefire/job/master/104/execution/node/183/log/
>> > > > >>
>> > > > >>
>> > > > >>
>> > > > >> On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 8:03 PM Gavin McDonald <
>> > [email protected]>
>> > > > >> wrote:
>> > > > >>
>> > > > >> > Hi Maven folks.
>> > > > >> >
>> > > > >> > Infra has decided to separate off the Maven build jobs from
>> > > > >> > ci-builds.apache.org over to its very own Jenkins Controller
>> and
>> > > > >> Agents.
>> > > > >> >
>> > > > >> > This means that Maven now has a dedicated Jenkins environment
>> for
>> > > > >> itself.
>> > > > >> > It
>> > > > >> > also means that no other projects build jobs can build on the
>> > Maven
>> > > > >> nodes;
>> > > > >> > and
>> > > > >> > then Maven jobs will no longer  be able to build on the
>> ci-builds
>> > > > jobs.
>> > > > >> >
>> > > > >> > Your new Controller is set up as https://ci-maven.apache.org
>> and
>> > > all
>> > > > >> Maven
>> > > > >> > Committers
>> > > > >> > can login via LDAP and create jobs.
>> > > > >> >
>> > > > >> > At the time of writing, there is one node/agent attached but I
>> am
>> > > > >> building
>> > > > >> > 4 more  - all
>> > > > >> > Ubuntu 20.04 and based in our Azure account.
>> > > > >> >
>> > > > >> > We can automagically move all your jobs over from ci-builds to
>> > > > ci-maven
>> > > > >> - I
>> > > > >> > just need someone to tell me go ahead and do it.
>> > > > >> >
>> > > > >> > In the meantime, feel free to have a test. The remaining 4
>> agents
>> > > will
>> > > > >> be
>> > > > >> > online
>> > > > >> > by tomorrow. We will review after a month if 5 is enough nodes.
>> > > > >> >
>> > > > >> > As with other projects having their own dedicated controller,
>> who
>> > > have
>> > > > >> > taken advantage
>> > > > >> > of this isolation by having some nodes/agents given to the
>> project
>> > > as
>> > > > a
>> > > > >> > 'targeted donation'
>> > > > >> > so someone here may know of a Company will to donate 5 - 10 or
>> > more
>> > > > >> nodes
>> > > > >> > specifically
>> > > > >> > for Maven Jenkins environment. Infra can afford to hand you
>> over 5
>> > > > right
>> > > > >> > now.
>> > > > >> >
>> > > > >> > Let me know if you have any questions, otherwise let me know
>> when
>> > I
>> > > > can
>> > > > >> > make the
>> > > > >> > transfer of your jobs.
>> > > > >> >
>> > > > >> > Thanks
>> > > > >> >
>> > > > >> > --
>> > > > >> >
>> > > > >> > *Gavin McDonald*
>> > > > >> > Systems Administrator
>> > > > >> > ASF Infrastructure Team
>> > > > >> >
>> > > > >>
>> > > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > > > --
>> > > > > Arnaud Héritier
>> > > > > Twitter/Skype : aheritier
>> > > > >
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > --
>> > > > Arnaud Héritier
>> > > > Twitter/Skype : aheritier
>> > > >
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Arnaud Héritier
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>> >
>>
>
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*Gavin McDonald*
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