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Mickael Maison commented on KAFKA-6777:
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You usually do that via JVM options.
For example on Oracle's JVM, you can use: -XX:OnOutOfMemoryError="<cmd args>;
<cmd args>"
[http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tech/vmoptions-jsp-140102.html]
If you set it in KAFKA_OPTS, it will be automatically picked up by the tools
under /bin
> Wrong reaction on Out Of Memory situation
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> Key: KAFKA-6777
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-6777
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: core
> Affects Versions: 1.0.0
> Reporter: Seweryn Habdank-Wojewodzki
> Priority: Critical
>
> Dears,
> We already encountered many times problems related to Out Of Memory situation
> in Kafka Broker and streaming clients.
> The scenario is the following.
> When Kafka Broker (or Streaming Client) is under load and has too less
> memory, there are no errors in server logs. One can see some cryptic entries
> in GC logs, but they are definitely not self-explaining.
> Kafka Broker (and Streaming Clients) works further. Later we see in JMX
> monitoring, that JVM uses more and more time in GC. In our case it grows from
> e.g. 1% to 80%-90% of CPU time is used by GC.
> Next, software collapses into zombie mode – process in not ending. In such a
> case I would expect, that process is crashing (e.g. got SIG SEGV). Even worse
> Kafka treats such a zombie process normal and somewhat sends messages, which
> are in fact getting lost, also the cluster is not excluding broken nodes. The
> question is how to configure Kafka to really terminate the JVM and not remain
> in zombie mode, to give a chance to other nodes to know, that something is
> dead.
> I would expect that in Out Of Memory situation JVM is ended if not graceful
> than at least process is crashed.
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