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Purshotam Shah commented on OOZIE-1978:
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bq. We did not look into the forkjoin validation though.
We have disabled fork and join validation in our production.
> Forkjoin validation code is ridiculously slow in some cases
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> Key: OOZIE-1978
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OOZIE-1978
> Project: Oozie
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: core
> Affects Versions: trunk, 4.0.1
> Reporter: Robert Kanter
> Assignee: Peter Bacsko
> Fix For: trunk
>
> Attachments: OOZIE-1978_wip.001.patch, workflow.xml
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> We've had a few users who have run into problems where submitting a workflow
> appears to hang (in the case of a subworkflow, it's similar but stuck in
> PREP). It turns out that if you wait long enough, it will actually go
> through and the workflow will run normally. The problem is that the forkjoin
> validation code is taking a really long time.
> The attached example has a series of 20 forks where each fork has 6 actions
> (it's based on an actual workflow, but all of the names were changed and the
> actions were all replaced by simple shell actions). One of our support guys
> said it took 1-2 hours , but on my computer it was taking {color:red}*15+
> hours*{color} (I had to cancel it)
> While this example doesn't have any nested forks, those can also take a long
> time too.
> It's easy to verify that it's the forkjoin validation code that's taking so
> long by looking at a jstack of the Oozie server and seeing deep recursive
> calls to
> {{org.apache.oozie.workflow.lite.LiteWorkflowAppParser.validateForkJoin}}. I
> also noticed a lot of sitting around in calls LinkedList.contains.
> I think we have 3 options:
> # See if we can make the existing code faster somehow. Perhaps there's a way
> to parallelize it? Maybe there's some redundant checking that we can
> identify and skip? Change some data structures? etc
> # See if we can write a new way to do this validation. I had originally
> completely rewritten this code a while ago, and we've since made a few fixes
> to catch edge cases and things. Perhaps it needs another rewrite?
> # Try to identify when it's taking a long time and at least let the user know
> what's happening or something. Right now, it just appears that the Oozie CLI
> has hung and the job doesn't show up in the Oozie server. Most users aren't
> going to wait more than a minute or two.
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