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Paul Kelly commented on NIFI-7114:
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So my overnight test didn't leak, but I was able to find something that does
leak FIFOs 100% of the time. Please see the new flow.xml.gz that is attached.
It is much simpler: GenerateFlowFile -> DetectDuplicate (with a
DistributedMapCache as its backing service) -> LogAttribute.
Our normal data flow is pretty bursty. We don't have a continuous stream of
data and we sometimes go a few minutes without anything. So to simulate this,
I kept a repeated watch of "lsof | grep (java pid) | grep FIFO | wc -l" running
while stopping the GenerateFlowFile processor for one minute, then turning it
back on, and repeating. The effects can be seen in the attached fifocounts.txt.
What happens is immediately after stopping GenerateFlowFile, the FIFO counts
hold steady for around one minute. After that minute elapses (when some sort
of garbage collection runs?), they drop by ~150. Immediately after restarting
GenerateFlowFile, they jump up by ~300 and stay there. I let it run for an
hour after and it doesn't seem like they ever get closed. These effects are
reproducible 100% of the time.
It seems like whatever is causing the FIFOs to be opened opens two of them when
they start, but only 1 is getting closed when the flow is idle.
> NiFi not closing file handles
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>
> Key: NIFI-7114
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-7114
> Project: Apache NiFi
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Configuration
> Affects Versions: 1.10.0, 1.11.0
> Environment: Amazon EC2 running either Amazon Linux 2 or Ubuntu 18.04.
> NiFi has been installed with no change to any configuration file.
> Reporter: Vinicius Zolin
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: destination.xml, fifocounts.txt, flow.xml.gz, lsof.log,
> lsof.zip, lsofAfter.log, lsofBefore.log, openFiles.xlsx, reproduction.zip,
> source.xml
>
>
> Since at least version 1.10 NiFi stopped closing file handles. It opens circa
> 500 files per hour (measured using lsof) without any apparent limit until it
> crashes due to too many open files.
>
> Increasing the computer open file limit is not a solution since NiFi will
> still crash, it'll only take longer to do so.
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