Should the connection close after all calls are complete, or have failed to 
start?

Art


On Friday, April 28, 2023 at 9:06:55 AM UTC-7 Yuri Golobokov wrote:

> GOAWAY just prevents new streams(calls) from being started on the 
> connection. If you have live streams on the connection it will stay open 
> until all calls are completed.
>
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 8:44 AM Arthur Naseef <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Let me clarify one point - I was expecting the client to close the 
>> connection after the GOAWAY.  Is there a reason to leave the connection 
>> open after that point?
>>
>> Art
>>
>>
>> On Friday, April 28, 2023 at 8:42:58 AM UTC-7 Arthur Naseef wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you for the response.  we are aware of the semantics, and they do 
>>> as advertised - the Channel goes into IDLE on the GOAWAY.  However, the 
>>> CONNECTION itself lingers indefinitely.  So every time we get a GOAWAY from 
>>> the server, we leak a connection - until that connection is closed by the 
>>> server itself.  I was expecting the connection to close after receiving the 
>>> GOAWAY.
>>>
>>> We call getState with true as a means of ensuring the client does its 
>>> best to keep the connection to the server.  The README.md in the POC 
>>> project explain why.  In short - the server pushes messages to the client 
>>> (via GRPC stream), the server cannot initiate the connection to the client, 
>>> and the client does not know when the server will send messages.  So, the 
>>> client does it's best to keep the connection to the server active at all 
>>> times.
>>>
>>> Art
>>>
>>> On Friday, April 28, 2023 at 2:13:58 AM UTC-7 [email protected] 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Take a look at 
>>>> https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/doc/connectivity-semantics-and-api.md
>>>>  
>>>> - it says "...channels that receive a GOAWAY when there are no active or 
>>>> pending RPCs should also switch to IDLE..."
>>>>
>>>> Also according to 
>>>> https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java/blob/master/api/src/main/java/io/grpc/ManagedChannel.java#L78
>>>>  
>>>> if you call `getState` with `true` then "the channel will try to make a 
>>>> connection if it is currently IDLE ". And that might explain why your 
>>>> `getState` call itself causes a new connection to be created. I haven't 
>>>> looked at your code in detail but do you need to call `getState` with 
>>>> `true`? Can you try with `false` ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, April 28, 2023 at 3:13:37 AM UTC+5:30 Arthur Naseef wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I am running into an issue with the GRPC Java client in which the 
>>>>> client leaks connections over time.  Reading through the grpc-java code, 
>>>>> debugging, and instrumenting has led my the following question:
>>>>>
>>>>>    - Does the netty client code ever close the connection except when 
>>>>>    it sees the socket close intiaited externally (i.e. by the O/S or the 
>>>>>    server)?
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is a small project that (1) contains a description of the problem 
>>>>> and some of the history related to it, and (2) can be used to reproduce 
>>>>> the 
>>>>> connection leak.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://github.com/artnaseef/opennms-poc-hs1384
>>>>>
>>>>> In brief, we see the following:
>>>>>
>>>>>    - The NGINX ingress times out a request
>>>>>    - The NGINX ingress sends a GOAWAY packet to the client.
>>>>>    - The client channel transitions to IDLE but does not close the 
>>>>>    connection.  
>>>>>    - The client creates a new connection for the channel, which 
>>>>>    transitions to CONNECTING and then READY
>>>>>    - The list of transports for the channel holds the leaked 
>>>>>    connections
>>>>>
>>>>> Note that switching to the OK HTTP implementation appears to improve 
>>>>> the results with the test tool, but our main application still observes 
>>>>> leaked connections when running with OK HTTP.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any help is appreciated.  I can certainly share more details as needed.
>>>>>
>>>>> Art
>>>>>
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