Classic Server could hung with (near) 100% CPU load
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Key: CORE-4615
URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-4615
Project: Firebird Core
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Engine
Affects Versions: 2.5.3, 2.5.2 Update 1, 2.5.2
Environment: Classic Server\Super Classic
Reporter: Vlad Khorsun
There are few reports from few customers that under some (not very well known)
conditions Classic Server (or SuperClassic) could
stop response. At least one process could use almost 100% of CPU (core). Almost
no IO. The issue is very rare, Firebird could
work days or weeks without a problem.
Memory dump shows very deep recursive calls of CCH\downgrade() function.
Sometimes, in SuperClassic we see the cases when
another thread runs also very deep calls of CCH\write_buffer() function.
It was never reproduced by me, so i don't know exact reason for this issue.
There is an idea that while AST thread writes pages and
cleans dependencies, worker thread doing some work (garbage collection of a
very long versions chain, for example) and re-creates
same dependencies, forcing AST thread to clean them again and again.
In attempt to fix it we disabled engine checkouts when thread handles AST
routine. It makes worker thread to wait while AST is processed.
Must note, that before v2.5 engine always works this way. Customers with
private build was satisfied and i decided to commit the patch.
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