One more question for the routing table provider - is it possible to
distinguish b/w add/modify and delete - I essentially want to ignore the
delete events - can that be found by looking at the list of ExternalView(s)
being passed ?

Thanks
Varun

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Varun Sharma <[email protected]> wrote:

> I see - one more thing - there was talk of a batching mode where Helix can
> batch updates - can it batch multiple updates  to the external view and
> write once into zookeeper instead of writing for every update. For example,
> consider the case when lots of partitions are being onlined - if we could
> batch updates to the external view into batches of 100 ? Is that supported
> in Helix 0.6.4
>
> Thanks !
> Varun
>
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Zhen Zhang <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  Yes. the listener will be notified on add/delete/modify. You can
>> distinguish if you have a local cache and compare to get the delta.
>> Currently the API doesn't expose this.
>>
>>  ------------------------------
>> *From:* Varun Sharma [[email protected]]
>> *Sent:* Thursday, February 05, 2015 1:53 PM
>>
>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* Re: Excessive ZooKeeper load
>>
>>   I assume that it also gets called when external views get modified ?
>> How can i distinguish if there was an Add, a modify or a delete ?
>>
>>  Thanks
>> Varun
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Zhen Zhang <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>  Yes. It will get invoked when external views are added or deleted.
>>>  ------------------------------
>>> *From:* Varun Sharma [[email protected]]
>>> *Sent:* Thursday, February 05, 2015 1:27 AM
>>>
>>> *To:* [email protected]
>>> *Subject:* Re: Excessive ZooKeeper load
>>>
>>>    I had another question - does the RoutingTableProvider
>>> onExternalViewChange call get invoked when a resource gets deleted (and
>>> hence its external view znode) ?
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:54 PM, Zhen Zhang <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Yes. I think we did this in the incubating stage or even before. It's
>>>> probably in a separate branch for some performance evaluation.
>>>>
>>>>  ------------------------------
>>>> *From:* kishore g [[email protected]]
>>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 04, 2015 9:54 PM
>>>>
>>>> *To:* [email protected]
>>>> *Subject:* Re: Excessive ZooKeeper load
>>>>
>>>>    Jason, I remember having the ability to compress/decompress and
>>>> before we added the support to bucketize, compression was used to support
>>>> large number of partitions. However I dont see the code anywhere. Did we do
>>>> this on a separate branch?
>>>>
>>>>  thanks,
>>>> Kishore G
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Zhen Zhang <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  Hi Varun, we can certainly add compression and have a config for
>>>>> turning it on/off. We do have implemented compression in our own zkclient
>>>>> before. The issue for compression might be:
>>>>> 1) cpu consumption on controller will increase.
>>>>> 2) hard to debug
>>>>>
>>>>>  Thanks,
>>>>> Jason
>>>>>  ------------------------------
>>>>> *From:* kishore g [[email protected]]
>>>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 04, 2015 3:08 PM
>>>>>
>>>>> *To:* [email protected]
>>>>> *Subject:* Re: Excessive ZooKeeper load
>>>>>
>>>>>    we do have the ability to compress the data. I am not sure if
>>>>> there is a easy way to turn on/off the compression.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Varun Sharma <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I am wondering if its possible to gzip the external view znode - a
>>>>>> simple gzip cut down the data size by 25X. Is it possible to plug in
>>>>>> compression/decompression as zookeeper nodes are read ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Varun
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:53 PM, kishore g <[email protected]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There are multiple options we can try here.
>>>>>>> what if we used cacheddataaccessor for this use case?.clients will
>>>>>>> only read if node has changed. This optimization can benefit all use 
>>>>>>> cases.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What about batching the watch triggers. Not sure which version of
>>>>>>> helix has this option.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Another option is to use a poll based roundtable instead of watch
>>>>>>> based. This can coupled with cacheddataaccessor can be over efficient.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> Kishore G
>>>>>>>  On Feb 2, 2015 8:17 PM, "Varun Sharma" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> My total external view across all resources is roughly 3M in size
>>>>>>>> and there are 100 clients downloading it twice for every node restart -
>>>>>>>> thats 600M of data for every restart. So I guess that is causing this
>>>>>>>> issue. We are thinking of doing some tricks to limit the # of clients 
>>>>>>>> to 1
>>>>>>>> from 100. I guess that should help significantly.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  Varun
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 7:37 PM, Zhen Zhang <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>  Hey Varun,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>  I guess your external view is pretty large, since each external
>>>>>>>>> view callback takes ~3s. The RoutingTableProvider is callback
>>>>>>>>> based, so only when there is a change in the external view,
>>>>>>>>> RoutingTableProvider will read the entire external view from ZK. 
>>>>>>>>> During the
>>>>>>>>> rolling upgrade, there are lots of live instance change, which may 
>>>>>>>>> lead to
>>>>>>>>> a lot of changes in the external view. One possible way to mitigate 
>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>> issue is to smooth the traffic by having some delays in between 
>>>>>>>>> bouncing
>>>>>>>>> nodes. We can do a rough estimation on how many external view changes 
>>>>>>>>> you
>>>>>>>>> might have during the upgrade, how many listeners you have, and how 
>>>>>>>>> large
>>>>>>>>> is the external views. Once we have these numbers, we might know the 
>>>>>>>>> ZK
>>>>>>>>> bandwidth requirement. ZK read bandwidth can be scaled by adding ZK
>>>>>>>>> observers.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>  ZK watcher is one time only, so every time a listener receives a
>>>>>>>>> callback, it will re-register its watcher again to ZK.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>  It's normally unreliable to depend on delta changes instead of
>>>>>>>>> reading the entire znode. There might be some corner cases where you 
>>>>>>>>> would
>>>>>>>>> lose delta changes if you depend on that.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>  For the ZK connection issue, do you have any log on the ZK
>>>>>>>>> server side regarding this connection?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>  Thanks,
>>>>>>>>> Jason
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>   ------------------------------
>>>>>>>>> *From:* Varun Sharma [[email protected]]
>>>>>>>>> *Sent:* Monday, February 02, 2015 4:41 PM
>>>>>>>>> *To:* [email protected]
>>>>>>>>> *Subject:* Re: Excessive ZooKeeper load
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>    I believe there is a misbehaving client. Here is a stack trace
>>>>>>>>> - it probably lost connection and is now stampeding it:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>  "ZkClient-EventThread-104-terrapinzk001a:2181,terrapinzk
>>>>>>>>> 002b:2181,terrapinzk003e:2181" daemon prio=10
>>>>>>>>> tid=0x00007f534144b800 nid=0x7db5 in Object.wait() 
>>>>>>>>> [0x00007f52ca9c3000]
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>    java.lang.Thread.State: WAITING (on object monitor)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>         at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>         at java.lang.Object.wait(Object.java:503)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>         at
>>>>>>>>> org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn.submitRequest(ClientCnxn.java:1309)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>         - locked <0x00000004fb0d8c38> (a
>>>>>>>>> org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn$Packet)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>         at
>>>>>>>>> org.apache.zookeeper.ZooKeeper.exists(ZooKeeper.java:1036)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>         at
>>>>>>>>> org.apache.zookeeper.ZooKeeper.exists(ZooKeeper.java:1069)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>         at org.I0Itec.zk
>>>>>>>>> client.ZkConnection.exists(ZkConnection.java:95)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>         at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient$11.call(ZkClient.java:823)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> *        at
>>>>>>>>> org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.retryUntilConnected(ZkClient.java:675)*
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> *        at
>>>>>>>>> org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.watchForData(ZkClient.java:820)*
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> *        at
>>>>>>>>> org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.subscribeDataChanges(ZkClient.java:136)*
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>         at org.apache.helix.manager.zk
>>>>>>>>> .CallbackHandler.subscribeDataChange(CallbackHandler.java:241)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>         at org.apache.helix.manager.zk
>>>>>>>>> .CallbackHandler.subscribeForChanges(CallbackHandler.java:287)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>         at org.apache.helix.manager.zk
>>>>>>>>> .CallbackHandler.invoke(CallbackHandler.java:202)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>         - locked <0x000000056b75a948> (a org.apache.helix.manager.
>>>>>>>>> zk.ZKHelixManager)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>         at org.apache.helix.manager.zk
>>>>>>>>> .CallbackHandler.handleDataChange(CallbackHandler.java:338)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>         at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient$6.run(ZkClient.java:547)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>         at org.I0Itec.zk
>>>>>>>>> client.ZkEventThread.run(ZkEventThread.java:71)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Varun Sharma <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I am wondering what is causing the zk subscription to happen
>>>>>>>>>> every 2-3 seconds - is this a new watch being established every 3 
>>>>>>>>>> seconds ?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>  Thanks
>>>>>>>>>>  Varun
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Varun Sharma <[email protected]
>>>>>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>  We are serving a few different resources whose total # of
>>>>>>>>>>> partitions is ~ 30K. We just did a rolling restart fo the cluster 
>>>>>>>>>>> and the
>>>>>>>>>>> clients which use the RoutingTableProvider are stuck in a bad state 
>>>>>>>>>>> where
>>>>>>>>>>> they are constantly subscribing to changes in the external view of a
>>>>>>>>>>> cluster. Here is the helix log on the client after our rolling 
>>>>>>>>>>> restart was
>>>>>>>>>>> finished - the client is constantly polling ZK. The zookeeper node 
>>>>>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>>>>>> pushing 300mbps right now and most of the traffic is being pulled by
>>>>>>>>>>> clients. Is this a race condition - also is there an easy way to 
>>>>>>>>>>> make the
>>>>>>>>>>> clients not poll so aggressively. We restarted one of the clients 
>>>>>>>>>>> and we
>>>>>>>>>>> don't see these same messages anymore. Also is it possible to just
>>>>>>>>>>> propagate external view diffs instead of the whole big znode ?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>  15/02/03 00:21:18 INFO zk.CallbackHandler: 104 END:INVOKE
>>>>>>>>>>> /main_a/EXTERNALVIEW
>>>>>>>>>>> listener:org.apache.helix.spectator.RoutingTableProvider Took: 
>>>>>>>>>>> 3340ms
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> 15/02/03 00:21:18 INFO zk.CallbackHandler: 104 START:INVOKE
>>>>>>>>>>> /main_a/EXTERNALVIEW
>>>>>>>>>>> listener:org.apache.helix.spectator.RoutingTableProvider
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> 15/02/03 00:21:18 INFO zk.CallbackHandler: pinacle2084
>>>>>>>>>>> subscribes child-change. path: /main_a/EXTERNALVIEW, listener:
>>>>>>>>>>> org.apache.helix.spectator.RoutingTableProvider@76984879
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> 15/02/03 00:21:22 INFO zk.CallbackHandler: 104 END:INVOKE
>>>>>>>>>>> /main_a/EXTERNALVIEW
>>>>>>>>>>> listener:org.apache.helix.spectator.RoutingTableProvider Took: 
>>>>>>>>>>> 3371ms
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> 15/02/03 00:21:22 INFO zk.CallbackHandler: 104 START:INVOKE
>>>>>>>>>>> /main_a/EXTERNALVIEW
>>>>>>>>>>> listener:org.apache.helix.spectator.RoutingTableProvider
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> 15/02/03 00:21:22 INFO zk.CallbackHandler: pinacle2084
>>>>>>>>>>> subscribes child-change. path: /main_a/EXTERNALVIEW, listener:
>>>>>>>>>>> org.apache.helix.spectator.RoutingTableProvider@76984879
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> 15/02/03 00:21:25 INFO zk.CallbackHandler: 104 END:INVOKE
>>>>>>>>>>> /main_a/EXTERNALVIEW
>>>>>>>>>>> listener:org.apache.helix.spectator.RoutingTableProvider Took: 
>>>>>>>>>>> 3281ms
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> 15/02/03 00:21:25 INFO zk.CallbackHandler: 104 START:INVOKE
>>>>>>>>>>> /main_a/EXTERNALVIEW
>>>>>>>>>>> listener:org.apache.helix.spectator.RoutingTableProvider
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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