Sun hotspot compiler bug in 1.6.0_04/05 affects Lucene ------------------------------------------------------
Key: LUCENE-1282 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1282 Project: Lucene - Java Issue Type: Bug Components: Index Affects Versions: 2.3.1, 2.3 Reporter: Michael McCandless Assignee: Michael McCandless Priority: Minor Fix For: 2.4 This is not a Lucene bug. It's an as-yet not fully characterized Sun JRE bug, as best I can tell. I'm opening this to gather all things we know, and to work around it in Lucene if possible, and maybe open an issue with Sun if we can reduce it to a compact test case. It's hit at least 3 users: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/lucene-java-user/200803.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/lucene-solr-user/200804.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/lucene-java-user/200805.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] It's specific to at least JRE 1.6.0_04 and 1.6.0_05, that affects Lucene. Whereas 1.6.0_03 works OK and it's unknown whether 1.6.0_06 shows it. The bug affects bulk merging of stored fields. When it strikes, the segment produced by a merge is corrupt because its fdx file (stored fields index file) is missing one document. After iterating many times with the first user that hit this, adding diagnostics & assertions, its seems that a call to fieldsWriter.addDocument some either fails to run entirely, or, fails to invoke its call to indexStream.writeLong. It's as if when hotspot compiles a method, there's some sort of race condition in cutting over to the compiled code whereby a single method call fails to be invoked (speculation). Unfortunately, this corruption is silent when it occurs and only later detected when a merge tries to merge the bad segment, or an IndexReader tries to open it. Here's a typical merge exception: {code} Exception in thread "Thread-10" org.apache.lucene.index.MergePolicy$MergeException: org.apache.lucene.index.CorruptIndexException: doc counts differ for segment _3gh: fieldsReader shows 15999 but segmentInfo shows 16000 at org.apache.lucene.index.ConcurrentMergeScheduler$MergeThread.run(ConcurrentMergeScheduler.java:271) Caused by: org.apache.lucene.index.CorruptIndexException: doc counts differ for segment _3gh: fieldsReader shows 15999 but segmentInfo shows 16000 at org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentReader.initialize(SegmentReader.java:313) at org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentReader.get(SegmentReader.java:262) at org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentReader.get(SegmentReader.java:221) at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.mergeMiddle(IndexWriter.java:3099) at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.merge(IndexWriter.java:2834) at org.apache.lucene.index.ConcurrentMergeScheduler$MergeThread.run(ConcurrentMergeScheduler.java:240) {code} and here's a typical exception hit when opening a searcher: {code} org.apache.lucene.index.CorruptIndexException: doc counts differ for segment _kk: fieldsReader shows 72670 but segmentInfo shows 72671 at org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentReader.initialize(SegmentReader.java:313) at org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentReader.get(SegmentReader.java:262) at org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentReader.get(SegmentReader.java:230) at org.apache.lucene.index.DirectoryIndexReader$1.doBody(DirectoryIndexReader.java:73) at org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentInfos$FindSegmentsFile.run(SegmentInfos.java:636) at org.apache.lucene.index.DirectoryIndexReader.open(DirectoryIndexReader.java:63) at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader.open(IndexReader.java:209) at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader.open(IndexReader.java:173) at org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher.<init>(IndexSearcher.java:48) {code} Sometimes, adding -Xbatch (forces up front compilation) or -Xint (disables compilation) to the java command line works around the issue. Here are some of the OS's we've seen the failure on: {code} SuSE 10.0 Linux phoebe 2.6.13-15-smp #1 SMP Tue Sep 13 14:56:15 UTC 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux SuSE 8.2 Linux phobos 2.4.20-64GB-SMP #1 SMP Mon Mar 17 17:56:03 UTC 2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.1 (Tikanga) Linux lab8.betech.virginia.edu 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 #1 SMP Tue Feb 19 07:18:21 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux {code} I've already added assertions to Lucene to detect when this bug strikes, but since assertions are not usually enabled, I plan to add a real check to catch when this bug strikes *before* we commit the merge to the index. This way we can detect & quarantine the failure and prevent corruption from entering the index. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]