Hello Scott,
On a customer project we use massively the job manager with an average
of one hundred thousand job per days.
We have different cases like, huge long jobs, async persistent job, fast
regular job. The mainly problem that we detect has been (as you
notified) the long jobs that stuck poller's thread and when we restart
OFBiz (we are on continuous delivery) we hadn't windows this without
crash some jobs.
To solve try with Gil to analyze if we can load some weighting on job
definition to help the job manager on what jobs on the pending queue it
can push on queued queue. We changed own vision to create two pools, one
for system maintenance and huge long jobs managed by two ofbiz instances
and an other to manage user activity jobs also managed by two instances.
We also added on service definition an information to indicate the
predilection pool
This isn't a big deal and not resolve the stuck pool but all blocked
jobs aren't vital for daily activity.
For crashed job, we introduced in trunk service lock that we set before
an update and wait a windows for the restart.
At this time for all OOM detected we reanalyse the origin job and tried
to decompose it by persistent async service to help loading repartition.
If I had more time, I would be oriented job improvement to :
* Define an execution plan rule to link services and poller without
touch any service definition
* Define configuration by instance for the job vacuum to refine by
service volumetric
This feedback is a little confused Scott, maybe you found interesting
things
Nicolas
On 30/01/2019 20:47, Scott Gray wrote:
Hi folks,
Just jotting down some issues with the JobManager over noticed over the
last few days:
1. min-threads in serviceengine.xml is never exceeded unless the job count
in the queue exceeds 5000 (or whatever is configured). Is this not obvious
to anyone else? I don't think this was the behavior prior to a refactoring
a few years ago.
2. The advice on the number of threads to use doesn't seem good to me, it
assumes your jobs are CPU bound when in my experience they are more likely
to be I/O bound while making db or external API calls, sending emails etc.
With the default setup, it only takes two long running jobs to effectively
block the processing of any others until the queue hits 5000 and the other
threads are finally opened up. If you're not quickly maxing out the queue
then any other jobs are stuck until the slow jobs finally complete.
3. Purging old jobs doesn't seem to be well implemented to me, from what
I've seen the system is only capable of clearing a few hundred per minute
and if you've filled the queue with them then regular jobs have to queue
behind them and can take many minutes to finally be executed.
I'm wondering if anyone has experimented with reducing the queue the size?
I'm considering reducing it to say 100 jobs per thread (along with
increasing the thread count). In theory it would reduce the time real jobs
have to sit behind PurgeJobs and would also open up additional threads for
use earlier.
Alternatively I've pondered trying a PriorityBlockingQueue for the job
queue (unfortunately the implementation is unbounded though so it isn't a
drop-in replacement) so that PurgeJobs always sit at the back of the
queue. It might also allow prioritizing certain "user facing" jobs (such
as asynchronous data imports) over lower priority less time critical jobs.
Maybe another option (or in conjunction) is some sort of "swim-lane"
queue/executor that allocates jobs to threads based on prior execution
speed so that slow running jobs can never use up all threads and block
faster jobs.
Any thoughts/experiences you have to share would be appreciated.
Thanks
Scott
