Hi to all, I'm still trying to understand what's going on our production Flink cluster. The facts are:
1. The Flink cluster runs on 5 VMWare VMs managed by ESXi 2. On a specific job we have, without limiting the direct memory to 5g, the TM gets killed by the OS almost immediately because the memory required by the TM, at some point, becomes huge, like > 100 GB (others jobs seem to be less affected by the problem ) 3. Although the memory consumption is much better this way, the Flink TM memory continuously grow job after job (of this problematic type): we set TM max heap to 14 GB and the JVM required memory can be ~ 30 Gb. How is that possible? My fear is that there's some annoying memory leak / bad memory allocation in the Flink network level, but I can't have any evidence of this (except the fact that the vm which doesn't have a hdfs datanode underneath the Flink TM is the one with the biggest TM virtual memory consumption). Thanks for the help , Flavio On 29 May 2017 15:37, "Nico Kruber" <n...@data-artisans.com> wrote: > FYI: taskmanager.sh sets this parameter but also states the following: > > # Long.MAX_VALUE in TB: This is an upper bound, much less direct memory > will > be used > TM_MAX_OFFHEAP_SIZE="8388607T" > > > Nico > > On Monday, 29 May 2017 15:19:47 CEST Aljoscha Krettek wrote: > > Hi Flavio, > > > > Is this running on YARN or bare metal? Did you manage to find out where > this > > insanely large parameter is coming from? > > > > Best, > > Aljoscha > > > > > On 25. May 2017, at 19:36, Flavio Pompermaier <pomperma...@okkam.it> > > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi to all, > > > I think we found the root cause of all the problems. Looking ad dmesg > > > there was a "crazy" total-vm size associated to the OOM error, a LOT > much > > > bigger than the TaskManager's available memory. In our case, the TM > had a > > > max heap of 14 GB while the dmsg error was reporting a required amount > of > > > memory in the order of 60 GB! > > > > > > [ 5331.992539] Out of memory: Kill process 24221 (java) score 937 or > > > sacrifice child [ 5331.992619] Killed process 24221 (java) > > > total-vm:64800680kB, anon-rss:31387544kB, file-rss:6064kB, > shmem-rss:0kB > > > > > > That wasn't definitively possible usin an ordinary JVM (and our TM was > > > running without off-heap settings) so we've looked at the parameters > used > > > to run the TM JVM and indeed there was a reall huge amount of memory > > > given to MaxDirectMemorySize. With my big surprise Flink runs a TM with > > > this parameter set to 8.388.607T..does it make any sense?? Is it > > > documented anywhere the importance of this parameter (and why it is > used > > > in non off-heap mode as well)? Is it related to network buffers? It > > > should also be documented that this parameter should be added to the TM > > > heap when reserving memory to Flin (IMHO). > > > > > > I hope that this painful sessions of Flink troubleshooting could be an > > > added value sooner or later.. > > > > > > Best, > > > Flavio > > > > > > On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Flavio Pompermaier < > pomperma...@okkam.it > > > <mailto:pomperma...@okkam.it>> wrote: I can confirm that after giving > > > less memory to the Flink TM the job was able to run successfully. After > > > almost 2 weeks of pain, we summarize here our experience with Fink in > > > virtualized environments (such as VMWare ESXi): Disable the > > > virtualization "feature" that transfer a VM from a (heavy loaded) > > > physical machine to another one (to balance the resource consumption) > > > Check dmesg when a TM dies without logging anything (usually it goes > OOM > > > and the OS kills it but there you can find the log of this thing) > CentOS > > > 7 on ESXi seems to start swapping VERY early (in my case I see the OS > > > starting swapping also if there are 12 out of 32 GB of free memory)! > > > We're still investigating how this behavior could be fixed: the problem > > > is that it's better not to disable swapping because otherwise VMWare > > > could start ballooning (that is definitely worse...). > > > > > > I hope this tips could save someone else's day.. > > > > > > Best, > > > Flavio > > > > > > On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 4:28 PM, Flavio Pompermaier < > pomperma...@okkam.it > > > <mailto:pomperma...@okkam.it>> wrote: Hi Greg, you were right! After > > > typing dmsg I found "Out of memory: Kill process 13574 (java)". This is > > > really strange because the JVM of the TM is very calm. > > > Moreover, there are 7 GB of memory available (out of 32) but somehow > the > > > OS decides to start swapping and, when it runs out of available swap > > > memory, the OS decides to kill the Flink TM :( > > > > > > Any idea of what's going on here? > > > > > > On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Flavio Pompermaier < > pomperma...@okkam.it > > > <mailto:pomperma...@okkam.it>> wrote: Hi Greg, > > > I carefully monitored all TM memory with jstat -gcutil and there'no > full > > > gc, only .> > > > The initial situation on the dying TM is: > > > S0 S1 E O M CCS YGC YGCT FGC FGCT > > > GCT 0.00 100.00 33.57 88.74 98.42 97.17 159 2.508 1 > > > 0.255 2.763 0.00 100.00 90.14 88.80 98.67 97.17 197 > 2.617 > > > 1 0.255 2.873 0.00 100.00 27.00 88.82 98.75 97.17 234 > > > 2.730 1 0.255 2.986> > > > After about 10 hours of processing is: > > > 0.00 100.00 21.74 83.66 98.52 96.94 5519 33.011 1 > 0.255 > > > 33.267 0.00 100.00 21.74 83.66 98.52 96.94 5519 33.011 1 > > > 0.255 33.267 0.00 100.00 21.74 83.66 98.52 96.94 5519 > 33.011 > > > 1 0.255 33.267> > > > So I don't think thta OOM could be an option. > > > > > > However, the cluster is running on ESXi vSphere VMs and we already > > > experienced unexpected crash of jobs because of ESXi moving a > > > heavy-loaded VM to another (less loaded) physical machine..I would't be > > > surprised if swapping is also handled somehow differently.. Looking at > > > Cloudera widgets I see that the crash is usually preceded by an intense > > > cpu_iowait period. I fear that Flink unsafe access to memory could be a > > > problem in those scenarios. Am I wrong? > > > > > > Any insight or debugging technique is greatly appreciated. > > > Best, > > > Flavio > > > > > > > > > On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Greg Hogan <c...@greghogan.com > > > <mailto:c...@greghogan.com>> wrote: Hi Flavio, > > > > > > Flink handles interrupts so the only silent killer I am aware of is > > > Linux's OOM killer. Are you seeing such a message in dmesg? > > > > > > Greg > > > > > > On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 3:18 AM, Flavio Pompermaier < > pomperma...@okkam.it > > > <mailto:pomperma...@okkam.it>> wrote: Hi to all, > > > I'd like to know whether memory swapping could cause a taskmanager > crash. > > > In my cluster of virtual machines 'm seeing this strange behavior in my > > > Flink cluster: sometimes, if memory get swapped the taskmanager (on > that > > > machine) dies unexpectedly without any log about the error. > > > > > > Is that possible or not? > > > > > > Best, > > > Flavio > >
