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Philip Zeyliger commented on IMPALA-7738:
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Hadoop should be exposing settings for all the timeouts.
{{ipc.client.rpc-timeout.ms}} is one such. See also IMPALA-6189 for a watchdog
approach.
(I whole-heartedly agree that we should be timing out.)
> Implement timeouts for HDFS calls
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>
> Key: IMPALA-7738
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-7738
> Project: IMPALA
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Backend
> Affects Versions: Impala 2.7.0, Impala 2.8.0, Impala 2.9.0, Impala 2.10.0,
> Impala 2.11.0, Impala 3.0, Impala 2.12.0
> Reporter: Michael Ho
> Priority: Critical
>
> Currently, there is no timeout with the various HDFS calls (e.g. hdfsOpen(),
> hdfsRead()) we made in libhdfs.so in either the disk-io-mgr thread or scanner
> thread context. Various users of Impala have complaint in the past about hung
> queries which eventually boiled down to stuck hdfs calls. HDFS maintainers
> have been slow to find the root cause of those hangs. To make this kind of
> stuck queries problem easier to identify in the future, we should just
> enforce a timeout in various hdfs calls so the queries will fail when certain
> HDFS calls take longer than a designated timeout period.
> There may be multiple layers which this timeout can be enforced:
> * at Impala level, we can have a fixed sized thread pool which handles all
> hdfs calls. The existing hdfs calls will be a wrapper with a timeout.
> * at libhdfs.so, enforce a timeout at places in the HDFS client code which
> may block forever.
> The second option is probably beyond the charter of Apache Impala project.
> cc'ing [~tarmstr...@cloudera.com], [~joemcdonnell]
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