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Oleksandr Kalinin commented on OOZIE-3181:
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Alternatively, it should be possible to implement configuration parameter that
controls maximum number of past actions that can be materialized in one shot,
and fail the workflow if the actual number exceeds the maximum.
> High frequency LAST_ONLY coord. job with many past time actions kills Oozie
> server
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> Key: OOZIE-3181
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OOZIE-3181
> Project: Oozie
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 4.3.0
> Reporter: Oleksandr Kalinin
> Priority: Major
>
> User submitting high frequency LAST_ONLY coordinator job for past time
> (intentionally or by mistake) triggers enormous materialization loop for that
> job and potentially OOM condition even with high heap settings.
> Simplest example is:
> coordStarts=2017-02-12T09:00Z
> coordEnds=2019-02-12T09:00Z
> coordFrequency=*/1 * * * *
> <execution>LAST_ONLY</execution>
> Since throttling parameters are ignored on LAST_ONLY past actions, this
> triggers non throttled materialization of more than 500K actions lying in the
> past which causes severe memory pressure and eventual GC overhead lockout.
> At the same time by definition all past actions will be skipped anyway, thus
> it seems that the only value in materializing them is ability to view SKIPPED
> status later. Is it really worth the risk?
> Note : additional severity of this problem is that it's not trivial to
> recover it on ZK-coordinated clusters. Write lock will persist which will
> prevent kill command from taking desired effect, and that lock will persist
> also after restart. To recover, write lock has to be manually removed.
> Looking at materialization loop code, I believe there is potential for
> algorithm improvement to prevent this issue.
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