What I meant to ask was, does it do any harm to keep calling
cancel-with-savepoint until the job exits? If the job is already cancelling
with savepoint, I would assume that another cancel-with-savepoint call is
just ignored.

On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 1:18 PM Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org> wrote:

> Just a small addition. Concurrent cancel call will interfere with the
> cancel-with-savepoint command and directly cancel the job. So it is better
> to use the cancel-with-savepoint call in order to take savepoint and then
> cancel the job automatically.
>
> Cheers,
> Till
>
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 9:53 AM vino yang <yanghua1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Juho,
>>
>> We use REST client API : triggerSavepoint(), this API returns a
>> CompletableFuture, then we call it's get() API.
>>
>> You can understand that I am waiting for it to complete in sync.
>> Because cancelWithSavepoint is actually waiting for savepoint to complete
>> synchronization, and then execute the cancel command.
>>
>> We do not use CLI. I think since you are through the CLI, you can observe
>> whether the savepoint is complete by combining the log or the web UI.
>>
>> Thanks, vino.
>>
>>
>> Juho Autio <juho.au...@rovio.com> 于2018年8月9日周四 下午3:07写道:
>>
>>> Thanks for the suggestion. Is the separate savepoint triggering async?
>>> Would you then separately poll for the savepoint's completion before
>>> executing cancel? If additional polling is needed, then I would say that
>>> for my purpose it's still easier to call cancel with savepoint and simply
>>> ignore the result of the call. I would assume that it won't do any harm if
>>> I keep retrying cancel with savepoint until the job stops – I expect that
>>> an overlapping cancel request is ignored if the job is already creating a
>>> savepoint. Please correct if my assumption is wrong.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 5:04 AM vino yang <yanghua1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Juho,
>>>>
>>>> This problem does exist, I suggest you separate these two steps to
>>>> temporarily deal with this problem:
>>>> 1) Trigger Savepoint separately;
>>>> 2) execute the cancel command;
>>>>
>>>> Hi Till, Chesnay:
>>>>
>>>> Our internal environment and multiple users on the mailing list have
>>>> encountered similar problems.
>>>>
>>>> In our environment, it seems that JM shows that the save point is
>>>> complete and JM has stopped itself, but the client will still connect to
>>>> the old JM and report a timeout exception.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, vino.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Juho Autio <juho.au...@rovio.com> 于2018年8月8日周三 下午9:18写道:
>>>>
>>>>> I was trying to cancel a job with savepoint, but the CLI command
>>>>> failed with "akka.pattern.AskTimeoutException: Ask timed out".
>>>>>
>>>>> The stack trace reveals that ask timeout is 10 seconds:
>>>>>
>>>>> Caused by: akka.pattern.AskTimeoutException: Ask timed out on
>>>>> [Actor[akka://flink/user/jobmanager_0#106635280]] after [10000 ms].
>>>>> Sender[null] sent message of type
>>>>> "org.apache.flink.runtime.rpc.messages.LocalFencedMessage".
>>>>>
>>>>> Indeed it's documented that the default value for akka.ask.timeout="10
>>>>> s" in
>>>>>
>>>>> https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-stable/ops/config.html#distributed-coordination-via-akka
>>>>>
>>>>> Behind the scenes the savepoint creation & job cancellation succeeded,
>>>>> that was to be expected, kind of. So my problem is just getting a proper
>>>>> response back from the CLI call instead of timing out so eagerly.
>>>>>
>>>>> To be exact, what I ran was:
>>>>>
>>>>> flink-1.5.2/bin/flink cancel b7c7d19d25e16a952d3afa32841024e5 -m
>>>>> yarn-cluster -yid application_1533676784032_0001 --withSavepoint
>>>>>
>>>>> Should I change the akka.ask.timeout to have a longer timeout? If yes,
>>>>> can I override it just for the CLI call somehow? Maybe it might have
>>>>> undesired side-effects if set globally for the actual flink jobs to use?
>>>>>
>>>>> What about akka.client.timeout? The default for it is also rather
>>>>> low: "60 s". Should it also be increased accordingly if I want to accept
>>>>> longer than 60 s for savepoint creation?
>>>>>
>>>>> Finally, that default timeout is so low that I would expect this to be
>>>>> a common problem. I would say that Flink CLI should have higher default
>>>>> timeout for cancel and savepoint creation ops.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>

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