Re: [DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the primary gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped

2020-07-10 Thread Alberto Gomez
Hi Xiaojian,

No problem, I had already extended the deadline for comments to next Thursday 
(July the 16th). If more time is needed to get all the relevant comments, we 
can extend it further.

Thanks,

Alberto

From: Xiaojian Zhou 
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2020 6:32 PM
To: dev@geode.apache.org 
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the 
primary gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped

Hi, Alberto:

I was the original author who introduced the tmpDroppedEvents. Due to other 
work, I only got chance to read the issue on Thursday, which is your deadline. 
Can you hold on a little bit longer to Monday?

I have been thinking of history of the code changes and issues you encountered. 
I will try to find a light-weight solution with minimum impact to current code.

Regards
Xiaojian Zhou

On 7/8/20, 1:05 PM, "Eric Shu"  wrote:

I think the only case the memory issue occurred is when all gateway senders 
are stopped in the wan-site. Otherwise another member would assume to be the 
primary queue. No more events will be enqueued in tmpDroppedEvents on the 
member with original primary queue. (For parallel wan queue, I do not think 
stop one gateway queue is a valid case to support.)

For all gateway senders are stopped case, no need to notify any other 
members in the wan site if the limit is reached. The tmpDroppedEvents is only 
used for remove events on the secondary queue. If no events are enqueued in the 
secondary queue, there is no need to add into tmpDroppedEvents at all. To me, 
it should be only used for limited events to be queued.

Regards,
Eric

From: Alberto Gomez 
Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 12:02 PM
To: dev@geode.apache.org 
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the 
primary gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped

Thanks for your comments, Eric.

Limiting the size of the queue would be a simple solution but I think it 
would pose several problems on the the one configuring and operating Geode:

  *   How big should the queue be? Probably not easy to dimension. Should 
the limit by on the memory occupied by the elements or on the number of 
elements in the queue (in which case, depending on the size of the elements, 
the memory used could vary a lot)?
  *   What  to do when the limit has been reached? how do we notify that it 
was reached, what to do afterwards, how would we know what dropped events did 
not make it to the queue but should have been removed from the secondary's 
queue...

I think the solution proposed in the RFC is simple enough and also 
addresses a possible confusion with the semantics of the gateway sender stop 
command.
Stopping a gateway sender currently makes that all events received while 
the sender is stopped are dropped; but at the same time, unlimited memory may 
be consumed by the dropped events. We could put a limit on the amount of memory 
used by the queued dropped events but what would be the point in the first 
place to store them if those events will not be sent to the remote site anyway?
I would expect that after stopping a gateway sender no resources (or at 
least a minimal part) would be consumed by it. Otherwise we may as well not 
stop it or use the pause command depending on what we want to achieve.

From what I have seen, queuing dropped events has its place while the 
gateway sender is starting and while it is stopping but if it is done in a 
sender to be started manually or in a manually stopped server it could provoke 
an unexpected memory exhaustion.

I really think the solution proposed makes the behavior of the gateway 
sender command more logical.

Best regards,

Alberto

From: Eric Shu 
Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 7:32 PM
To: dev@geode.apache.org 
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the 
primary gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped

It seems that I was not able to comment on the RFC in the wiki yet.

Just try to find out if we have a simple solution for the issue you raised 
-- can we have a up-limit for the tmpDroppedEvents queue in question?

Always check the limit before adding to the queue -- so that the tmp queue 
is not unbound?

Regards,
Eric

From: Alberto Gomez 
Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 8:24 AM
To: geode 
Subject: [DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the 
primary gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped

Hi,

I have published a new RFC in the Apache Geode wiki with the following 
title: "Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the primary gateway sender when 
the gateway sender is stopped".



Re: [DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the primary gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped

2020-07-10 Thread Xiaojian Zhou
Hi, Alberto:

I was the original author who introduced the tmpDroppedEvents. Due to other 
work, I only got chance to read the issue on Thursday, which is your deadline. 
Can you hold on a little bit longer to Monday?

I have been thinking of history of the code changes and issues you encountered. 
I will try to find a light-weight solution with minimum impact to current code. 

Regards
Xiaojian Zhou

On 7/8/20, 1:05 PM, "Eric Shu"  wrote:

I think the only case the memory issue occurred is when all gateway senders 
are stopped in the wan-site. Otherwise another member would assume to be the 
primary queue. No more events will be enqueued in tmpDroppedEvents on the 
member with original primary queue. (For parallel wan queue, I do not think 
stop one gateway queue is a valid case to support.)

For all gateway senders are stopped case, no need to notify any other 
members in the wan site if the limit is reached. The tmpDroppedEvents is only 
used for remove events on the secondary queue. If no events are enqueued in the 
secondary queue, there is no need to add into tmpDroppedEvents at all. To me, 
it should be only used for limited events to be queued.

Regards,
Eric

From: Alberto Gomez 
Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 12:02 PM
To: dev@geode.apache.org 
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the 
primary gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped

Thanks for your comments, Eric.

Limiting the size of the queue would be a simple solution but I think it 
would pose several problems on the the one configuring and operating Geode:

  *   How big should the queue be? Probably not easy to dimension. Should 
the limit by on the memory occupied by the elements or on the number of 
elements in the queue (in which case, depending on the size of the elements, 
the memory used could vary a lot)?
  *   What  to do when the limit has been reached? how do we notify that it 
was reached, what to do afterwards, how would we know what dropped events did 
not make it to the queue but should have been removed from the secondary's 
queue...

I think the solution proposed in the RFC is simple enough and also 
addresses a possible confusion with the semantics of the gateway sender stop 
command.
Stopping a gateway sender currently makes that all events received while 
the sender is stopped are dropped; but at the same time, unlimited memory may 
be consumed by the dropped events. We could put a limit on the amount of memory 
used by the queued dropped events but what would be the point in the first 
place to store them if those events will not be sent to the remote site anyway?
I would expect that after stopping a gateway sender no resources (or at 
least a minimal part) would be consumed by it. Otherwise we may as well not 
stop it or use the pause command depending on what we want to achieve.

From what I have seen, queuing dropped events has its place while the 
gateway sender is starting and while it is stopping but if it is done in a 
sender to be started manually or in a manually stopped server it could provoke 
an unexpected memory exhaustion.

I really think the solution proposed makes the behavior of the gateway 
sender command more logical.

Best regards,

Alberto

From: Eric Shu 
Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 7:32 PM
To: dev@geode.apache.org 
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the 
primary gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped

It seems that I was not able to comment on the RFC in the wiki yet.

Just try to find out if we have a simple solution for the issue you raised 
-- can we have a up-limit for the tmpDroppedEvents queue in question?

Always check the limit before adding to the queue -- so that the tmp queue 
is not unbound?

Regards,
Eric

From: Alberto Gomez 
Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 8:24 AM
To: geode 
Subject: [DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the 
primary gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped

Hi,

I have published a new RFC in the Apache Geode wiki with the following 
title: "Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the primary gateway sender when 
the gateway sender is stopped".


https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcwiki.apache.org%2Fconfluence%2Fdisplay%2FGEODE%2FAvoid%2Bthe%2Bqueuing%2Bof%2Bdropped%2Bevents%2Bby%2Bthe%2Bprimary%2Bgateway%2Bsender%2Bwhen%2Bthe%2Bgateway%2Bsender%2Bis%2Bstoppeddata=02%7C01%7Czhouxh%40vmware.com%7C368e4337126e4e4ca05508d8237a31c6%7Cb39138ca3cee4b4aa4d6cd83d9dd62f0%7C0%7C0%7C637298355008581269sdata=8R2rlTCFR1sVOk77ZDwjG5IVAnCBnuXHWTc2lluB2do%3Dreserved=0

Could you please give comments by Thursday, July 9th, 2020?

Thanks in advance,

Alberto G.



Re: [DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the primary gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped

2020-07-09 Thread Alberto Gomez
Hi Alexander,

Yes, sure. I am extending the deadline for comments to next Thursday, July the 
16th.

Cheers,

Alberto G.

From: Alexander Murmann 
Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2020 1:42 AM
To: dev@geode.apache.org 
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the 
primary gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped

Hi Alberto,

The timing on this RFC feels really tight. Would you be open to extending
this to next week?

On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 1:04 PM Eric Shu  wrote:

> I think the only case the memory issue occurred is when all gateway
> senders are stopped in the wan-site. Otherwise another member would assume
> to be the primary queue. No more events will be enqueued in
> tmpDroppedEvents on the member with original primary queue. (For parallel
> wan queue, I do not think stop one gateway queue is a valid case to
> support.)
>
> For all gateway senders are stopped case, no need to notify any other
> members in the wan site if the limit is reached. The tmpDroppedEvents is
> only used for remove events on the secondary queue. If no events are
> enqueued in the secondary queue, there is no need to add into
> tmpDroppedEvents at all. To me, it should be only used for limited events
> to be queued.
>
> Regards,
> Eric
> 
> From: Alberto Gomez 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 12:02 PM
> To: dev@geode.apache.org 
> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the
> primary gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped
>
> Thanks for your comments, Eric.
>
> Limiting the size of the queue would be a simple solution but I think it
> would pose several problems on the the one configuring and operating Geode:
>
>   *   How big should the queue be? Probably not easy to dimension. Should
> the limit by on the memory occupied by the elements or on the number of
> elements in the queue (in which case, depending on the size of the
> elements, the memory used could vary a lot)?
>   *   What  to do when the limit has been reached? how do we notify that
> it was reached, what to do afterwards, how would we know what dropped
> events did not make it to the queue but should have been removed from the
> secondary's queue...
>
> I think the solution proposed in the RFC is simple enough and also
> addresses a possible confusion with the semantics of the gateway sender
> stop command.
> Stopping a gateway sender currently makes that all events received while
> the sender is stopped are dropped; but at the same time, unlimited memory
> may be consumed by the dropped events. We could put a limit on the amount
> of memory used by the queued dropped events but what would be the point in
> the first place to store them if those events will not be sent to the
> remote site anyway?
> I would expect that after stopping a gateway sender no resources (or at
> least a minimal part) would be consumed by it. Otherwise we may as well not
> stop it or use the pause command depending on what we want to achieve.
>
> From what I have seen, queuing dropped events has its place while the
> gateway sender is starting and while it is stopping but if it is done in a
> sender to be started manually or in a manually stopped server it could
> provoke an unexpected memory exhaustion.
>
> I really think the solution proposed makes the behavior of the gateway
> sender command more logical.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Alberto
> 
> From: Eric Shu 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 7:32 PM
> To: dev@geode.apache.org 
> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the
> primary gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped
>
> It seems that I was not able to comment on the RFC in the wiki yet.
>
> Just try to find out if we have a simple solution for the issue you raised
> -- can we have a up-limit for the tmpDroppedEvents queue in question?
>
> Always check the limit before adding to the queue -- so that the tmp queue
> is not unbound?
>
> Regards,
> Eric
> 
> From: Alberto Gomez 
> Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 8:24 AM
> To: geode 
> Subject: [DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the
> primary gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped
>
> Hi,
>
> I have published a new RFC in the Apache Geode wiki with the following
> title: "Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the primary gateway sender
> when the gateway sender is stopped".
>
>
> https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcwiki.apache.org%2Fconfluence%2Fdisplay%2FGEODE%2FAvoid%2Bthe%2Bqueuing%2Bof%2Bdropped%2Bevents%2Bby%2Bthe%2Bprimary%2Bgateway%2Bsender%2Bwhen%2Bthe%2Bgateway%2Bsender%2Bis%2Bstoppeddata=02%7C01%7Ceshu%40vmware.com%7C82aeb2f0bd30435131bd08d8237173c3%7Cb39138ca3cee4b4aa4d6cd83d9dd62f0%7C0%7C0%7C637298317468898044sdata=ihK%2BeTvnhiA0XXcw22fv5VjjgzjYL2EQwL5%2Fe0KK%2F08%3Dreserved=0
>
> Could you please give comments by Thursday, July 9th, 

Re: [DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the primary gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped

2020-07-09 Thread Alberto Gomez
Hi Eric,

I agree that the only case in which the memory issue may occur is when all 
gateway senders instances are stopped. And that is what the solution proposed 
in the RFC is targeted at, and also that is why the stop gateway sender command 
is intended to be updated to fix the issue.

Note that while stopping all the gateway sender instances, there may be events 
stored in the secondary senders that will be dropped by the primary sender. 
Those dropped events need to be queued while the secondaries are still up so 
that when the sender is started again, the secondary's queues would be drained 
accordingly.
If we go for the option of setting a limit on the dropped events, if set too 
small, there could be dropped events that should have been queued but weren't 
due to having reached the limit and which would not be sent to the secondaries 
to drain their queues completely (this is the case in which I meant that a 
notification must be sent to the operator of the system so that he knows that a 
possible issue is present in the system: queues with events that would stay 
there forever). On the other hand, if the limit is too high, the memory 
consumed by the queued dropped events could cause a problem of memory 
exhaustion.

I think the right balance is to stop queueing dropped events when all the 
gateway sender instances are stopped.

BR,

Alberto


From: Eric Shu 
Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 9:25 PM
To: dev@geode.apache.org 
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the 
primary gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped

I think the only case the memory issue occurred is when all gateway senders are 
stopped in the wan-site. Otherwise another member would assume to be the 
primary queue. No more events will be enqueued in tmpDroppedEvents on the 
member with original primary queue. (For parallel wan queue, I do not think 
stop one gateway queue is a valid case to support.)


For all gateway senders are stopped case, no need to notify any other members 
in the wan site if the limit is reached. The tmpDroppedEvents is only used for 
remove events on the secondary queue. If no events are enqueued in the 
secondary queue, there is no need to add into tmpDroppedEvents at all. To me, 
it should be only used for limited events to be queued.

Regards,
Eric

From: Alberto Gomez 
Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 12:02 PM
To: dev@geode.apache.org 
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the 
primary gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped

Thanks for your comments, Eric.

Limiting the size of the queue would be a simple solution but I think it would 
pose several problems on the the one configuring and operating Geode:

  *   How big should the queue be? Probably not easy to dimension. Should the 
limit by on the memory occupied by the elements or on the number of elements in 
the queue (in which case, depending on the size of the elements, the memory 
used could vary a lot)?
  *   What  to do when the limit has been reached? how do we notify that it was 
reached, what to do afterwards, how would we know what dropped events did not 
make it to the queue but should have been removed from the secondary's queue...

I think the solution proposed in the RFC is simple enough and also addresses a 
possible confusion with the semantics of the gateway sender stop command.
Stopping a gateway sender currently makes that all events received while the 
sender is stopped are dropped; but at the same time, unlimited memory may be 
consumed by the dropped events. We could put a limit on the amount of memory 
used by the queued dropped events but what would be the point in the first 
place to store them if those events will not be sent to the remote site anyway?
I would expect that after stopping a gateway sender no resources (or at least a 
minimal part) would be consumed by it. Otherwise we may as well not stop it or 
use the pause command depending on what we want to achieve.

>From what I have seen, queuing dropped events has its place while the gateway 
>sender is starting and while it is stopping but if it is done in a sender to 
>be started manually or in a manually stopped server it could provoke an 
>unexpected memory exhaustion.

I really think the solution proposed makes the behavior of the gateway sender 
command more logical.

Best regards,

Alberto

From: Eric Shu 
Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 7:32 PM
To: dev@geode.apache.org 
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the 
primary gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped

It seems that I was not able to comment on the RFC in the wiki yet.

Just try to find out if we have a simple solution for the issue you raised -- 
can we have a up-limit for the tmpDroppedEvents queue in question?

Always check the limit before adding to the queue -- so that the tmp queue is 

Re: [DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the primary gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped

2020-07-08 Thread Alexander Murmann
Hi Alberto,

The timing on this RFC feels really tight. Would you be open to extending
this to next week?

On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 1:04 PM Eric Shu  wrote:

> I think the only case the memory issue occurred is when all gateway
> senders are stopped in the wan-site. Otherwise another member would assume
> to be the primary queue. No more events will be enqueued in
> tmpDroppedEvents on the member with original primary queue. (For parallel
> wan queue, I do not think stop one gateway queue is a valid case to
> support.)
>
> For all gateway senders are stopped case, no need to notify any other
> members in the wan site if the limit is reached. The tmpDroppedEvents is
> only used for remove events on the secondary queue. If no events are
> enqueued in the secondary queue, there is no need to add into
> tmpDroppedEvents at all. To me, it should be only used for limited events
> to be queued.
>
> Regards,
> Eric
> 
> From: Alberto Gomez 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 12:02 PM
> To: dev@geode.apache.org 
> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the
> primary gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped
>
> Thanks for your comments, Eric.
>
> Limiting the size of the queue would be a simple solution but I think it
> would pose several problems on the the one configuring and operating Geode:
>
>   *   How big should the queue be? Probably not easy to dimension. Should
> the limit by on the memory occupied by the elements or on the number of
> elements in the queue (in which case, depending on the size of the
> elements, the memory used could vary a lot)?
>   *   What  to do when the limit has been reached? how do we notify that
> it was reached, what to do afterwards, how would we know what dropped
> events did not make it to the queue but should have been removed from the
> secondary's queue...
>
> I think the solution proposed in the RFC is simple enough and also
> addresses a possible confusion with the semantics of the gateway sender
> stop command.
> Stopping a gateway sender currently makes that all events received while
> the sender is stopped are dropped; but at the same time, unlimited memory
> may be consumed by the dropped events. We could put a limit on the amount
> of memory used by the queued dropped events but what would be the point in
> the first place to store them if those events will not be sent to the
> remote site anyway?
> I would expect that after stopping a gateway sender no resources (or at
> least a minimal part) would be consumed by it. Otherwise we may as well not
> stop it or use the pause command depending on what we want to achieve.
>
> From what I have seen, queuing dropped events has its place while the
> gateway sender is starting and while it is stopping but if it is done in a
> sender to be started manually or in a manually stopped server it could
> provoke an unexpected memory exhaustion.
>
> I really think the solution proposed makes the behavior of the gateway
> sender command more logical.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Alberto
> 
> From: Eric Shu 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 7:32 PM
> To: dev@geode.apache.org 
> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the
> primary gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped
>
> It seems that I was not able to comment on the RFC in the wiki yet.
>
> Just try to find out if we have a simple solution for the issue you raised
> -- can we have a up-limit for the tmpDroppedEvents queue in question?
>
> Always check the limit before adding to the queue -- so that the tmp queue
> is not unbound?
>
> Regards,
> Eric
> 
> From: Alberto Gomez 
> Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 8:24 AM
> To: geode 
> Subject: [DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the
> primary gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped
>
> Hi,
>
> I have published a new RFC in the Apache Geode wiki with the following
> title: "Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the primary gateway sender
> when the gateway sender is stopped".
>
>
> https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcwiki.apache.org%2Fconfluence%2Fdisplay%2FGEODE%2FAvoid%2Bthe%2Bqueuing%2Bof%2Bdropped%2Bevents%2Bby%2Bthe%2Bprimary%2Bgateway%2Bsender%2Bwhen%2Bthe%2Bgateway%2Bsender%2Bis%2Bstoppeddata=02%7C01%7Ceshu%40vmware.com%7C82aeb2f0bd30435131bd08d8237173c3%7Cb39138ca3cee4b4aa4d6cd83d9dd62f0%7C0%7C0%7C637298317468898044sdata=ihK%2BeTvnhiA0XXcw22fv5VjjgzjYL2EQwL5%2Fe0KK%2F08%3Dreserved=0
>
> Could you please give comments by Thursday, July 9th, 2020?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Alberto G.
>


Re: [DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the primary gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped

2020-07-08 Thread Eric Shu
I think the only case the memory issue occurred is when all gateway senders are 
stopped in the wan-site. Otherwise another member would assume to be the 
primary queue. No more events will be enqueued in tmpDroppedEvents on the 
member with original primary queue. (For parallel wan queue, I do not think 
stop one gateway queue is a valid case to support.)

For all gateway senders are stopped case, no need to notify any other members 
in the wan site if the limit is reached. The tmpDroppedEvents is only used for 
remove events on the secondary queue. If no events are enqueued in the 
secondary queue, there is no need to add into tmpDroppedEvents at all. To me, 
it should be only used for limited events to be queued.

Regards,
Eric

From: Alberto Gomez 
Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 12:02 PM
To: dev@geode.apache.org 
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the 
primary gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped

Thanks for your comments, Eric.

Limiting the size of the queue would be a simple solution but I think it would 
pose several problems on the the one configuring and operating Geode:

  *   How big should the queue be? Probably not easy to dimension. Should the 
limit by on the memory occupied by the elements or on the number of elements in 
the queue (in which case, depending on the size of the elements, the memory 
used could vary a lot)?
  *   What  to do when the limit has been reached? how do we notify that it was 
reached, what to do afterwards, how would we know what dropped events did not 
make it to the queue but should have been removed from the secondary's queue...

I think the solution proposed in the RFC is simple enough and also addresses a 
possible confusion with the semantics of the gateway sender stop command.
Stopping a gateway sender currently makes that all events received while the 
sender is stopped are dropped; but at the same time, unlimited memory may be 
consumed by the dropped events. We could put a limit on the amount of memory 
used by the queued dropped events but what would be the point in the first 
place to store them if those events will not be sent to the remote site anyway?
I would expect that after stopping a gateway sender no resources (or at least a 
minimal part) would be consumed by it. Otherwise we may as well not stop it or 
use the pause command depending on what we want to achieve.

>From what I have seen, queuing dropped events has its place while the gateway 
>sender is starting and while it is stopping but if it is done in a sender to 
>be started manually or in a manually stopped server it could provoke an 
>unexpected memory exhaustion.

I really think the solution proposed makes the behavior of the gateway sender 
command more logical.

Best regards,

Alberto

From: Eric Shu 
Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 7:32 PM
To: dev@geode.apache.org 
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the 
primary gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped

It seems that I was not able to comment on the RFC in the wiki yet.

Just try to find out if we have a simple solution for the issue you raised -- 
can we have a up-limit for the tmpDroppedEvents queue in question?

Always check the limit before adding to the queue -- so that the tmp queue is 
not unbound?

Regards,
Eric

From: Alberto Gomez 
Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 8:24 AM
To: geode 
Subject: [DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the primary 
gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped

Hi,

I have published a new RFC in the Apache Geode wiki with the following title: 
"Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the primary gateway sender when the 
gateway sender is stopped".

https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcwiki.apache.org%2Fconfluence%2Fdisplay%2FGEODE%2FAvoid%2Bthe%2Bqueuing%2Bof%2Bdropped%2Bevents%2Bby%2Bthe%2Bprimary%2Bgateway%2Bsender%2Bwhen%2Bthe%2Bgateway%2Bsender%2Bis%2Bstoppeddata=02%7C01%7Ceshu%40vmware.com%7C82aeb2f0bd30435131bd08d8237173c3%7Cb39138ca3cee4b4aa4d6cd83d9dd62f0%7C0%7C0%7C637298317468898044sdata=ihK%2BeTvnhiA0XXcw22fv5VjjgzjYL2EQwL5%2Fe0KK%2F08%3Dreserved=0

Could you please give comments by Thursday, July 9th, 2020?

Thanks in advance,

Alberto G.


Re: [DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the primary gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped

2020-07-08 Thread Alberto Gomez
Thanks for your comments, Eric.

Limiting the size of the queue would be a simple solution but I think it would 
pose several problems on the the one configuring and operating Geode:

  *   How big should the queue be? Probably not easy to dimension. Should the 
limit by on the memory occupied by the elements or on the number of elements in 
the queue (in which case, depending on the size of the elements, the memory 
used could vary a lot)?
  *   What  to do when the limit has been reached? how do we notify that it was 
reached, what to do afterwards, how would we know what dropped events did not 
make it to the queue but should have been removed from the secondary's queue...

I think the solution proposed in the RFC is simple enough and also addresses a 
possible confusion with the semantics of the gateway sender stop command.
Stopping a gateway sender currently makes that all events received while the 
sender is stopped are dropped; but at the same time, unlimited memory may be 
consumed by the dropped events. We could put a limit on the amount of memory 
used by the queued dropped events but what would be the point in the first 
place to store them if those events will not be sent to the remote site anyway?
I would expect that after stopping a gateway sender no resources (or at least a 
minimal part) would be consumed by it. Otherwise we may as well not stop it or 
use the pause command depending on what we want to achieve.

>From what I have seen, queuing dropped events has its place while the gateway 
>sender is starting and while it is stopping but if it is done in a sender to 
>be started manually or in a manually stopped server it could provoke an 
>unexpected memory exhaustion.

I really think the solution proposed makes the behavior of the gateway sender 
command more logical.

Best regards,

Alberto

From: Eric Shu 
Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 7:32 PM
To: dev@geode.apache.org 
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the 
primary gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped

It seems that I was not able to comment on the RFC in the wiki yet.

Just try to find out if we have a simple solution for the issue you raised -- 
can we have a up-limit for the tmpDroppedEvents queue in question?

Always check the limit before adding to the queue -- so that the tmp queue is 
not unbound?

Regards,
Eric

From: Alberto Gomez 
Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 8:24 AM
To: geode 
Subject: [DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the primary 
gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped

Hi,

I have published a new RFC in the Apache Geode wiki with the following title: 
"Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the primary gateway sender when the 
gateway sender is stopped".

https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcwiki.apache.org%2Fconfluence%2Fdisplay%2FGEODE%2FAvoid%2Bthe%2Bqueuing%2Bof%2Bdropped%2Bevents%2Bby%2Bthe%2Bprimary%2Bgateway%2Bsender%2Bwhen%2Bthe%2Bgateway%2Bsender%2Bis%2Bstoppeddata=02%7C01%7Ceshu%40vmware.com%7Cf4d61d141c014854f4c508d821c0a78e%7Cb39138ca3cee4b4aa4d6cd83d9dd62f0%7C0%7C0%7C637296458615861191sdata=Nqd%2FeUxXR713XIzn5KRg4x2V6CJIGHSgTEEwlTEzryk%3Dreserved=0

Could you please give comments by Thursday, July 9th, 2020?

Thanks in advance,

Alberto G.


Re: [DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the primary gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped

2020-07-08 Thread Eric Shu
It seems that I was not able to comment on the RFC in the wiki yet.

Just try to find out if we have a simple solution for the issue you raised -- 
can we have a up-limit for the tmpDroppedEvents queue in question?

Always check the limit before adding to the queue -- so that the tmp queue is 
not unbound?

Regards,
Eric

From: Alberto Gomez 
Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 8:24 AM
To: geode 
Subject: [DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the primary 
gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped

Hi,

I have published a new RFC in the Apache Geode wiki with the following title: 
"Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the primary gateway sender when the 
gateway sender is stopped".

https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcwiki.apache.org%2Fconfluence%2Fdisplay%2FGEODE%2FAvoid%2Bthe%2Bqueuing%2Bof%2Bdropped%2Bevents%2Bby%2Bthe%2Bprimary%2Bgateway%2Bsender%2Bwhen%2Bthe%2Bgateway%2Bsender%2Bis%2Bstoppeddata=02%7C01%7Ceshu%40vmware.com%7Cf4d61d141c014854f4c508d821c0a78e%7Cb39138ca3cee4b4aa4d6cd83d9dd62f0%7C0%7C0%7C637296458615861191sdata=Nqd%2FeUxXR713XIzn5KRg4x2V6CJIGHSgTEEwlTEzryk%3Dreserved=0

Could you please give comments by Thursday, July 9th, 2020?

Thanks in advance,

Alberto G.


[DISCUSS] RFC - Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the primary gateway sender when the gateway sender is stopped

2020-07-06 Thread Alberto Gomez
Hi,

I have published a new RFC in the Apache Geode wiki with the following title: 
"Avoid the queueing of dropped events by the primary gateway sender when the 
gateway sender is stopped".

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GEODE/Avoid+the+queuing+of+dropped+events+by+the+primary+gateway+sender+when+the+gateway+sender+is+stopped

Could you please give comments by Thursday, July 9th, 2020?

Thanks in advance,

Alberto G.