Thanks Matthew. Yep, there are quite a few hits on 'waiting'. Interesting. I'll 
send the merged log separately.

Dave

--
Dave Lowell
[email protected]

On Nov 14, 2012, at 10:43 AM, Matthew Von-Maszewski wrote:

> Dave,
> 
> Ok, heavy writes.  Let's see if leveldb has hit one of its intentional 
> "stalls":
> 
>> sort /var/db/riak/leveldb/*/LOG* | grep -i waiting
> 
> See if that shows any indication of stall in the LOG files of leveldb.  If 
> so, pick one server and send me a combined LOG file from that server:
> 
> sort /var/db/riak/leveldb/*/LOG* >LOG.all
> 
> That will tar zip really well.
> 
> Matthew
> 
> 
> On Nov 14, 2012, at 1:34 PM, David Lowell wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Matthew. I've run both greps with no hits, unfortunately.
>> 
>> A couple of details that I want to highlight. Since I first posted about 
>> this issue, we upgraded from Riak 1.2.0, to 1.2.1. Following that upgrade, 
>> we continue see these periods of instability with errors in the logs like  
>> "riak_kv_vnode worker pool crashed", but we started seeing lots of new error 
>> records in the logs about "Unrecognized message" as well.  In both cases, we 
>> see tons of these "long_gc" monitoring messages and several 
>> "system_memory_high_watermark" alarms during these periods. The client also 
>> has connection problems such as timeouts and connections being refused.
>> 
>> The logs from the last 18 hours on this server are really a mess, with very 
>> high levels of all of these errors. I'd be happy to send them along if you 
>> think that would help.
>> 
>> It's also worth noting that our application is pretty write heavy, has lots 
>> of parallel processes generating those writes (so not a lot of flow control 
>> if Riak bogs down, at least not yet). It's probably pushing Riak fairly hard.
>> 
>> Dave
>> 
>> --
>> Dave Lowell
>> [email protected]
>> 
>> On Nov 14, 2012, at 8:51 AM, Matthew Von-Maszewski wrote:
>> 
>>> Dave,
>>> 
>>> Just getting my head back into the game.  Was away for a few days.  Random 
>>> thought, maybe there is a hard drive with a read problem.  That can cause 
>>> issues similar to this.  1.2.1 does NOT percolate the read errors seen in 
>>> leveldb to riak-admin (yes, that should start to happen in 1.3).
>>> 
>>> I will assume your leveldb "data_root" is "/var/db/riak/leveldb" for this 
>>> script.  Please substitute your appropriate path from app.config and try 
>>> these two commands on each physical server (node):
>>> 
>>> sort /var/db/riak/leveldb/*/LOG* | grep corrupted
>>> sort /var/db/riak/leveldb/*/LOG* | grep checksum
>>> 
>>> If you get hits on either, we have found the problem.
>>> 
>>> The "LOCK file unavailable" is more of a statement about the internal 
>>> condition of the code instead of an error.  The message is saying that the 
>>> first attempt to re-open a vnode failed because the prior instance is still 
>>> closing (or more likely waiting for Erlang's garbage collection to finish 
>>> destroying things).  This message is new to 1.2 code base.
>>> 
>>> Matthew
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Nov 7, 2012, at 6:56 PM, David Lowell wrote:
>>> 
>>>> After further thought, I want to add more color to this issue. I 
>>>> hypothesize the symptoms I described here were continued fallout of an 
>>>> earlier crash. So I've waded further back into to the logs to try to shed 
>>>> light on how the Riak process was doing prior to this time. It was 
>>>> unhappy. It appears to have failed and stopped several times in the 1/2 
>>>> day prior. The pattern revealed in the logs looks something like this:
>>>> 
>>>> - Following  a clean startup, the service runs for a while
>>>> 
>>>> - Usually the first log entry of any kind near the beginning of a long 
>>>> block of error logs is "alarm_handler: 
>>>> {set,{system_memory_high_watermark,[]}}"  
>>>>    ( Is this indicating excessive memory use? )
>>>> 
>>>> - Within a few minutes we see several log messages warning about 
>>>> "long_gc", which I assume is an indication that garbage collection took 
>>>> longer than some threshold
>>>> 
>>>> - Within the next minute or two, we start to see the legions of errors, 
>>>> "riak_kv_vnode worker pool crashed", and "gen_fsm" having some sort of 
>>>> timeout when trying to communicate with the eleveldb backend
>>>> 
>>>> - Eventually we see a log record indicating "Failed to start 
>>>> riak_kv_eleveldb" because of a leveldb LOCK file being temporarily 
>>>> unavailable
>>>> 
>>>> - Then Riak starts to exit:  riak:stop:46 "backend module failed to 
>>>> start." 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> So, not really knowing the Riak internals, it's a little difficult to 
>>>> piece together the story here. Could be we're running low on memory. Hard 
>>>> to know why riak_kv_workers are failing, or why this leveldb LOCK file is 
>>>> unavailable. To those more learned, do these log records tell a story?
>>>> 
>>>> For the record, we're using the default 8 MB of leveldb cache per vnode, 
>>>> so that ought to cap cache for our 512 vnodes at 4 GB. Our host has 32 GB 
>>>> of physical memory. Are there other pieces of Riak that can use a lot of 
>>>> memory that we need to look out for?
>>>> 
>>>> I'll include a few of the actual log records for reference, below.
>>>> 
>>>> Dave
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Dave Lowell
>>>> [email protected]
>>>> 
>>>> Representative logs, many similar ones deleted for brevity:
>>>> 
>>>> 2012-11-07 01:41:02.395 [info] <0.51.0> alarm_handler: 
>>>> {set,{system_memory_high_watermark,[]}}
>>>> 2012-11-07 01:55:50.517 [info] 
>>>> <0.73.0>@riak_core_sysmon_handler:handle_event:85 monitor long_gc 
>>>> <0.18585.32> 
>>>> [{initial_call,{riak_core_coverage_fsm,init,1}},{almost_current_function,{riak_core_coverage_plan,'-next_vnode/2-fun-0-',2}},{message_queue_len,0}]
>>>>  
>>>> [{timeout,219},{old_heap_block_size,0},{heap_block_size,28657},{mbuf_size,0},{stack_size,48},{old_heap_size,0},{heap_size,11430}]
>>>> 2012-11-07 01:56:20.303 [error] <0.9231.0>@riak_core_vnode:handle_info:510 
>>>> 1258832464966656615093408225054454710289582522368 riak_kv_vnode worker 
>>>> pool crashed 
>>>> {timeout,{gen_fsm,sync_send_event,[<0.9234.0>,{checkout,false,5000},5000]}}
>>>> 2012-11-07 01:56:22.382 [error] <0.10002.0> gen_fsm <0.10002.0> in state 
>>>> ready terminated with reason: 
>>>> {timeout,{gen_server,call,[<0.10005.0>,{work,<0.10003.0>,{fold,#Fun<riak_kv_eleveldb_backend.3.97398576>,#Fun<riak_kv_vnode.14.47983300>},{fsm,{40916762,{1398702738851840683437120250060505233655091691520,'[email protected]'}},<0.18429.32>}}]}}
>>>> 2012-11-07 01:57:11.833 [error] <0.19755.32>@riak_kv_vnode:init:265 Failed 
>>>> to start riak_kv_eleveldb_backend Reason: {db_open,"IO error: lock 
>>>> /var/data/ctv/riak/leveldb/1258832464966656615093408225054454710289582522368/LOCK:
>>>>  Resource temporarily unavailable"}
>>>> 2012-11-07 01:57:27.425 [info] 
>>>> <0.73.0>@riak_core_sysmon_handler:handle_event:85 monitor long_gc 
>>>> <0.19181.32> 
>>>> [{initial_call,{riak_core_coverage_fsm,init,1}},{almost_current_function,{gen_fsm,loop,7}},{message_queue_len,0}]
>>>>  
>>>> [{timeout,109},{old_heap_block_size,0},{heap_block_size,28657},{mbuf_size,0},{stack_size,47},{old_heap_size,0},{heap_size,9171}]
>>>> 2012-11-07 01:57:51.109 [error] <0.10002.0> CRASH REPORT Process 
>>>> <0.10002.0> with 0 neighbours exited with reason: 
>>>> {timeout,{gen_server,call,[<0.10005.0>,{work,<0.10003.0>,{fold,#Fun<riak_kv_eleveldb_backend.3.97398576>,#Fun<riak_kv_vnode.14.47983300>},{fsm,{40916762,{1398702738851840683437120250060505233655091691520,'[email protected]'}},<0.18429.32>}}]}}
>>>>  in gen_fsm:terminate/7 line 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Nov 7, 2012, at 11:34 AM, David Lowell wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hello Riak Folks,
>>>>> 
>>>>> The last three days, we've been having a string of problems with Riak. An 
>>>>> otherwise healthy server running our full application stack will suddenly 
>>>>> start throwing a bunch of errors in the logs. Although the Riak processes 
>>>>> stay up, most or all requests to Riak fail during these periods.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The errors in the logs are predominantly describing "riak_kv_vnode worker 
>>>>> pool crashed" and timeout conditions. This morning, we had this crashy 
>>>>> behavior start immediately after a clean Riak startup, and making a 
>>>>> single call to our API, so the logs are quite free of other noise. I've 
>>>>> summarized those logs below for curious parties, and can attach the full 
>>>>> set of logs if needed.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I forgot to check this morning, but during a similar outage on Monday, 
>>>>> the Riak server was refusing connections to new clients.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Interestingly, after giving Riak a while with no traffic at all today 
>>>>> (like 15-30 minutes), it appears to have recovered without a restart. 
>>>>> We've had similar recoveries during other "outages" of this type since 
>>>>> Sunday evening. Facilitating this sort of recovery does seem to require 
>>>>> shutting down all application KV requests for a while.
>>>>> 
>>>>> We're suspicious of some kind of corruption in the eleveldb on-disk 
>>>>> files, because in past outages of this type, we've observed that the 
>>>>> condition persists over reboots. But we don't have much more evidence 
>>>>> than that. Is there a command we can run that will check over eleveldb 
>>>>> files for corruption or inconsistency?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Other than that, what can cause "worker pool crashed" events? What do you 
>>>>> know about the "timeouts" that are in these logs?
>>>>> 
>>>>> For the record, we're running Riak 1.2.0 on Ubuntu 10.04,  eleveldb 
>>>>> backend with 512 partitions. We're running predominantly in a single-node 
>>>>> configuration on a bunch of isolated dev boxes at the moment, on our way 
>>>>> to spreading out our 512 vnodes onto 5 hosts in production.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks for your help,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Dave
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> Dave Lowell
>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 2012-11-07 18:11:03.398 [info] <0.7.0> Application lager started on node 
>>>>> '[email protected]'
>>>>> 
>>>>> ... normal startup messages ...
>>>>> 
>>>>> 2012-11-07 18:11:50.109 [info] 
>>>>> <0.10582.0>@riak_core:wait_for_application:419 Wait complete for 
>>>>> application riak_search (0 seconds)
>>>>> 2012-11-07 18:22:18.509 [error] 
>>>>> <0.2897.0>@riak_core_vnode:handle_info:510 
>>>>> 105616329260241031198313161739262640092323250176 riak_kv_vnode worker 
>>>>> pool crashed 
>>>>> {timeout,{gen_server,call,[<0.2902.0>,{work,<0.2900.0>,{fold,#Fun<riak_kv_eleveldb_backend.3.97398576>,#Fun<riak_kv_vnode.14.47983300>},{fsm,{96247562,{105616329260241031198313161739262640092323250176,'[email protected]'}},<0.15324.0>}}]}}
>>>>> 2012-11-07 18:22:18.509 [error] <0.2899.0> gen_fsm <0.2899.0> in state 
>>>>> ready terminated with reason: 
>>>>> {timeout,{gen_server,call,[<0.2902.0>,{work,<0.2900.0>,{fold,#Fun<riak_kv_eleveldb_backend.3.97398576>,#Fun<riak_kv_vnode.14.47983300>},{fsm,{96247562,{105616329260241031198313161739262640092323250176,'[email protected]'}},<0.15324.0>}}]}}
>>>>> 
>>>>> ... 13 more "riak_kv_vnode worker pool crashed" messages...
>>>>> 
>>>>> 2012-11-07 18:22:21.245 [error] <0.2899.0> CRASH REPORT Process 
>>>>> <0.2899.0> with 0 neighbours exited with reason: 
>>>>> {timeout,{gen_server,call,[<0.2902.0>,{work,<0.2900.0>,{fold,#Fun<riak_kv_eleveldb_backend.3.97398576>,#Fun<riak_kv_vnode.14.47983300>},{fsm,{96247562,{105616329260241031198313161739262640092323250176,'[email protected]'}},<0.15324.0>}}]}}
>>>>>  in gen_fsm:terminate/7 line 611
>>>>> 2012-11-07 18:22:21.844 [error] <0.2944.0> gen_fsm <0.2944.0> in state 
>>>>> ready terminated with reason: 
>>>>> {timeout,{gen_server,call,[<0.2947.0>,{work,<0.2945.0>,{fold,#Fun<riak_kv_eleveldb_backend.3.97398576>,#Fun<riak_kv_vnode.14.47983300>},{fsm,{96247562,{114179815416476790484662877555959610910619729920,'[email protected]'}},<0.15324.0>}}]}}
>>>>> 
>>>>> ... 13 more "CRASH REPORT Process <X> with 0 neighbours exited with 
>>>>> reason" and "gen_fsm <0.2989.0> in state ready terminated with reason" 
>>>>> message pairs
>>>>> 
>>>>> 2012-11-07 18:23:21.427 [error] <0.15322.0> gen_server <0.15322.0> 
>>>>> terminated with reason: 
>>>>> {error,{case_clause,{error,timeout,[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[<<"1352256943.4983411">>],[],[],[],...]}},...}
>>>>> 2012-11-07 18:23:21.495 [error] <0.15322.0> CRASH REPORT Process 
>>>>> <0.15322.0> with 0 neighbours exited with reason: 
>>>>> {error,{case_clause,{error,timeout,[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[<<"1352256943.4983411">>],[],[],[],...]}},...}
>>>>>  in gen_server:terminate/6 line 747
>>>>> 2012-11-07 18:23:21.525 [error] <0.10590.0> Supervisor riak_api_pb_sup 
>>>>> had child undefined started with 
>>>>> {riak_api_pb_server,start_link,undefined} at <0.15322.0> exit with reason 
>>>>> {error,{case_clause,{error,timeout,[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[<<"1352256943.4983411">>],[],[],[],...]}},...}
>>>>>  in context child_terminated
>>>> 
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