Aditya Kishore created HBASE-6375:
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             Summary: Master could possibly be using a stale list of region 
servers for creating assignment plan during startup
                 Key: HBASE-6375
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-6375
             Project: HBase
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: master
    Affects Versions: 0.94.0, 0.92.1, 0.90.6, 0.96.0
         Environment: All
            Reporter: Aditya Kishore
            Assignee: Aditya Kishore


While investigating an Out of Memory issue, I had an interesting observation 
where the master tries to assign all regions to a single region server even 
though 7 other had already registered with it.

As the cluster had MSLAB enabled, this resulted in OOM on the RS when it tired 
to open all of them.

*From master's log (edited for brevity):*
{quote}
55,468 Waiting on regionserver(s) to checkin
56,968 Waiting on regionserver(s) to checkin
58,468 Waiting on regionserver(s) to checkin
59,968 Waiting on regionserver(s) to checkin
01,242 Registering server=srv109.datacenter,60020,1338673920529,regionCount=0,userLoad=false
01,469 Waiting on regionserver(s) count to settle; currently=1
02,969 Finished waiting for regionserver count to settle; count=1,sleptFor=46500
02,969 Exiting wait on regionserver(s) to checkin; count=1, stopped=false,count of regions out on cluster=0
03,010 Processing region \-ROOT\-,,0.70236052 in state M_ZK_REGION_OFFLINE
03,220 \-ROOT\- assigned=0, rit=true, location=srv109.datacenter:60020
03,221 Processing region .META.,,1.1028785192 in state M_ZK_REGION_OFFLINE
03,336 Detected completed assignment of META, notifying catalog tracker
03,350 .META. assigned=0, rit=true, location=srv109.datacenter:60020
03,350 Master startup proceeding: cluster startup
04,006 Registering server=srv111.datacenter,60020,1338673923399,regionCount=0,userLoad=false
04,012 Registering server=srv113.datacenter,60020,1338673923532,regionCount=0,userLoad=false
04,269 Registering server=srv115.datacenter,60020,1338673923471,regionCount=0,userLoad=false
04,363 Registering server=srv117.datacenter,60020,1338673923928,regionCount=0,userLoad=false
04,599 Registering server=srv127.datacenter,60020,1338673924067,regionCount=0,userLoad=false
04,606 Registering server=srv119.datacenter,60020,1338673923953,regionCount=0,userLoad=false
04,804 Registering server=srv129.datacenter,60020,1338673924339,regionCount=0,userLoad=false
05,126 Bulk assigning 1252 region(s) across 1 server(s), retainAssignment=true
05,546 hd109.datacenter,60020,1338673920529 unassigned znodes=207 of
{quote}

*A peek at AssignmentManager code offer some explanation:*
{code}
  public void assignAllUserRegions() throws IOException, InterruptedException {
    // Get all available servers
    List<HServerInfo> servers = serverManager.getOnlineServersList();

    // Scan META for all user regions, skipping any disabled tables
    Map<HRegionInfo,HServerAddress> allRegions =
      MetaReader.fullScan(catalogTracker, this.zkTable.getDisabledTables(), 
true);
    if (allRegions == null || allRegions.isEmpty()) return;

    // Determine what type of assignment to do on startup
    boolean retainAssignment = master.getConfiguration().
      getBoolean("hbase.master.startup.retainassign", true);

    Map<HServerInfo, List<HRegionInfo>> bulkPlan = null;
    if (retainAssignment) {
      // Reuse existing assignment info
      bulkPlan = LoadBalancer.retainAssignment(allRegions, servers);
    } else {
      // assign regions in round-robin fashion
      bulkPlan = LoadBalancer.roundRobinAssignment(new 
ArrayList<HRegionInfo>(allRegions.keySet()), servers);
    }
    LOG.info("Bulk assigning " + allRegions.size() + " region(s) across " +
      servers.size() + " server(s), retainAssignment=" + retainAssignment);
    ...
{code}

In the function assignAllUserRegions(), listed above, AM fetches the server 
list from ServerManager long before it actually use it to create assignment 
plan.

In between these, it performs a full scan of META to create an assignment map 
of regions. So even if additional RSes have registered in the meantime (as 
happened in this case), AM still has the old list of just one server.

This code snippet is from 0.90.6 but the same issue exists in 0.92, 0.94 and 
trunk. Since MSLAB is enabled by default in 0.92 onwards, any large cluster can 
hit this issue upon cluster start-up when the following sequence holds true.

# Master start long before the RSes (by default this long ~= 4.5 seconds)
# All the RSes start togather but one wins the race of registering with Master 
by few seconds.

I am attaching a patch for the trunk which moves the code which fetches the RS 
list form the beginning of the function to where it is first use.

Apart from this change, one addition HBase setting which now become important 
is "hbase.master.wait.on.regionservers.mintostart" due to MSLAB being enabled 
by true by default.

In large clusters which keeps it enabled now must modify 
"hbase.master.wait.on.regionservers.mintostart" to a suitable number than the 
default of 1 to ensures that the master waits for a quorum of RSes which are 
sufficient to open all the regions among themselves. I'll create a separate 
JIRA for the documentation change.

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