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Vihang Karajgaonkar reassigned HIVE-15879:
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> Fix HiveMetaStoreChecker.checkPartitionDirs method
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> Key: HIVE-15879
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-15879
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Vihang Karajgaonkar
> Assignee: Vihang Karajgaonkar
>
> HIVE-15803 fixes the msck hang issue in
> HiveMetaStoreChecker.checkPartitionDirs method by adding a check to see if
> the Threadpool has any spare threads. If not it uses single threaded listing
> of the files.
> {noformat}
> if (pool != null) {
> synchronized (pool) {
> // In case of recursive calls, it is possible to deadlock with TP.
> Check TP usage here.
> if (pool.getActiveCount() < pool.getMaximumPoolSize()) {
> useThreadPool = true;
> }
> if (!useThreadPool) {
> if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
> LOG.debug("Not using threadPool as active count:" +
> pool.getActiveCount()
> + ", max:" + pool.getMaximumPoolSize());
> }
> }
> }
> }
> {noformat}
> Based on the java doc of getActiveCount() below
> bq. Returns the approximate number of threads that are actively executing
> tasks.
> it returns only approximate number of threads and it cannot be guaranteed
> that it always returns the exact number of active threads. This still exposes
> the method implementation to the msck hang bug in rare corner cases.
> We could either:
> 1. Use a atomic counter to track exactly how many threads are actively running
> 2. Relook at the method itself to make it much simpler. Like eg, look into
> the possibility of changing the recursive implementation to an iterative
> implementation where worker threads pick tasks from a queue until the queue
> is empty.
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