Hello Abhihit,

  Thanks for the tip. The only problem is that the regionserver dies when this 
happens, so there's no regionserver pid :)

It only happens when I run a particular M/R task, so I'm going to try one more 
time with no tasks running on the region servers.

Take care,
  -stu

--- On Tue, 11/9/10, Abhijit Pol <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Abhijit Pol <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Is this indicative of a GC CPU starvation?
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 9:16 PM
> how are GC settings in hbase-env.sh
> look like for you? did you add/remove
> from out of box hbase-env.sh?
> 
> try running this on RS and watch last column, each
> increment should be small
> sudo -u <RS_USER> jstats -gcutil <RS_PID> 1000
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Stuart Smith <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> >  I just wanted to make sure that I'm interpreting
> a series of common issues
> > correctly.
> >
> > I saw ZK expirations causing regionserver failures,
> and this in a GC log of
> > one of the regionservers:
> >
> > 16237.033: [GC[YG occupancy: 22353 K (38336
> K)]16245.298: [Rescan
> > (parallel) , 0.0264040 secs]16245.325: [weak refs
> processing, 0.0000970
> > secs] [1 CMS-remark: 1465176K(3282456K)]
> 1487530K(3320792K), 0.0266760 secs]
> > [Times: user=0.02 sys=0.01, real=8.29 secs]
> >
> > 5328.127: [GC[YG occupancy: 27822 K (38336
> K)]5334.773: [Rescan (parallel)
> > , 0.0156270 secs]5334.788: [weak refs processing,
> 0.0003130 secs] [1
> > CMS-remark: 1144288K(2375464K)] 1172111K(2413800K),
> 0.0161190 secs] [Times:
> > user=0.02 sys=0.00, real=6.66 secs]
> >
> > I noted the rather large delta between the user/sys
> times & the real times
> > here:
> >
> > [Times: user=0.02 sys=0.00, real=6.66 secs]
> > [Times: user=0.02 sys=0.01, real=8.29 secs]
> >
> > So I'm assuming in the second of the two common causes
> of the GC issues?
> > That is, CPU or I/O bound M/R tasks are starving the
> GC of CPU time?
> >
> > Just wanted to check that I was stringing the logic
> (and logs) together
> > correctly.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Take care,
> >  -stu
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 



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