On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Geoff Hendrey <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've upgraded to HotSpot 64 Bit Server VM, with HBase 90.4 and all 
> recommended config changes (100 region server handlers, mslab enabled, etc). 
> No change, if anything it dies faster. Count of sockets in CLOSE_WAIT on 
> 50010 increases linearly. I logged netstat from a random node in the cluster, 
> periodically. Then dumped the output into excel using a pivot table to look 
> at a behavior of TCP. Number of connections from the given node to others on 
> 50010 was relatively uniform (no hotspot). Connections on 50010 from given 
> node to *self* was much way higher than to other nodes, but that's probably a 
> good thing. My guess is it's HBase leveraging locality of files for the 
> region server. Just a guess.
>
Yes.  You have good locality.  So maybe you are not bound up on a
single network resource.

So when you jstack and you see that regionserver has its threads all
stuck in next -- are they? -- then we are likely going to the local
datanode.  Anything in its logs when regionserver slows down?

> next step will be to test with JD Cryans suggestion:
> " In order to completely rule out at least one thing, can you set 
> ipc.server.max.queue.size to 1 and hbase.regionserver.handler.count to a low 
> number (let's say 10)? If payload is putting too much memory pressure, we'll 
> know."
>
> ...though I'm not sure what I'm supposed to observe with these settings...but 
> I'll try it and report on the outcome.
>

Well, you have GC logging already.  If you look at the output do you
see big pauses?  I think J-D was thinking that regionservers would be
using less memory if you make the queues smaller.  You could try that.
 Maybe when queues are big, its taking a while to process them and
client times out.  What size are these rows?

St.Ack


> -geoff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoff Hendrey [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 4:50 PM
> To: [email protected]; Andrew Purtell
> Cc: Tony Wang; Rohit Nigam; Parmod Mehta; James Ladd
> Subject: RE: scanner deadlock?
>
> 1019 sockets on 50010 in CLOSED_WAIT state.
>
> -geoff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Purtell [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 4:00 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: Tony Wang; Rohit Nigam; Parmod Mehta; James Ladd
> Subject: Re: scanner deadlock?
>
>
>
>> My current working theory is that
>> too many sockets are in CLOSE_WAIT state (leading to
>> ClosedChannelException?). We're going to try to adjust some OS
>> parameters.
>
> How many sockets are in that state? netstat -an | grep CLOSE_WAIT | wc -l
>
> CDH3U1 contains HDFS-1836... https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1836
>
> Best regards,
>
>        - Andy
>
> Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via 
> Tom White)
>
>
>>________________________________
>>From: Geoff Hendrey <[email protected]>
>>To: [email protected]
>>Cc: Tony Wang <[email protected]>; Rohit Nigam <[email protected]>; Parmod 
>>Mehta <[email protected]>; James Ladd <[email protected]>
>>Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 9:49 AM
>>Subject: RE: scanner deadlock?
>>
>>Thanks Stack -
>>
>>Answers to all your questions below. My current working theory is that
>>too many sockets are in CLOSE_WAIT state (leading to
>>ClosedChannelException?). We're going to try to adjust some OS
>>parameters.
>>
>>" I'm asking if regionservers are bottlenecking on a single network
>>resource; a particular datanode, dns?"
>>
>>Gotcha. I'm gathering some tools now to collect and analyze netstat
>>output.
>>
>>" the regionserver is going slow getting data out of
>>hdfs.  Whats iowait like at the time of slowness?  Has it changed from
>>when all was running nicely?"
>>
>>iowait is high (20% above cpu), but not increasing. I'll try to quantify
>>that better.
>>
>>" You talk to hbase in the reducer?   Reducers don't start writing hbase
>>until job is 66% complete IIRC.    Perhaps its slowing as soon as it
>>starts writing hbase?  Is that so?"
>>
>>My statement about "running fine" applies to after the reducer has
>>completed sort. We have metrics produced by the reducer that log the
>>results of scans ant Puts. So we know that scans and puts proceed
>>without issue for hours.
>>
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