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Piotr Nowojski commented on FLINK-23208:
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Great, thank [~wind_ljy]. Yes flink-benchmarks. Maybe we can write a
job/operator that registers 10_000_000 timers and finishes once they are
processed somehow?
> Late processing timers need to wait 1ms at least to be fired
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>
> Key: FLINK-23208
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-23208
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: API / DataStream, Runtime / Task
> Affects Versions: 1.11.0, 1.11.3, 1.13.0, 1.14.0, 1.12.4
> Reporter: Jiayi Liao
> Assignee: Jiayi Liao
> Priority: Critical
> Labels: critical
> Attachments: screenshot-1.png
>
>
> The problem is from the codes below:
> {code:java}
> public static long getProcessingTimeDelay(long processingTimestamp, long
> currentTimestamp) {
> // delay the firing of the timer by 1 ms to align the semantics with
> watermark. A watermark
> // T says we won't see elements in the future with a timestamp smaller
> or equal to T.
> // With processing time, we therefore need to delay firing the timer by
> one ms.
> return Math.max(processingTimestamp - currentTimestamp, 0) + 1;
> }
> {code}
> Assuming a Flink job creates 1 timer per millionseconds, and is able to
> consume 1 timer/ms. Here is what will happen:
> * Timestmap1(1st ms): timer1 is registered and will be triggered on
> Timestamp2.
> * Timestamp2(2nd ms): timer2 is registered and timer1 is triggered
> * Timestamp3(3rd ms): timer3 is registered and timer1 is consumed, after
> this, {{InternalTimerServiceImpl}} registers next timer, which is timer2, and
> timer2 will be triggered on Timestamp4(wait 1ms at least)
> * Timestamp4(4th ms): timer4 is registered and timer2 is triggered
> * Timestamp5(5th ms): timer5 is registered and timer2 is consumed, after
> this, {{InternalTimerServiceImpl}} registers next timer, which is timer3, and
> timer3 will be triggered on Timestamp6(wait 1ms at least)
> As we can see here, the ability of the Flink job is consuming 1 timer/ms, but
> it's actually able to consume 0.5 timer/ms. And another problem is that we
> cannot observe the delay from the lag metrics of the source(Kafka). Instead,
> what we can tell is that the moment of output is much later than expected.
> I've added a metrics in our inner version, we can see the lag of the timer
> triggering keeps increasing:
> !screenshot-1.png!
> *In another word, we should never let the late processing timer wait 1ms, I
> think a simple change would be as below:*
> {code:java}
> return Math.max(processingTimestamp - currentTimestamp, -1) + 1;
> {code}
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