How does the original RoutingTableProvider distinguish deletions from
add/updates ?

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Zhen Zhang <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Hi Varun, for the batching update. Helix controller is not updating
> external view on every update. Normally Helix controller will aggregate
> updates during a period of time. Say for 100 partitions, if they are
> updated roughly as the same time, then Helix controller will update
> external view only once. For routing table, what do you mean by ignoring
> delete events? RoutingTable will always be updated by ZK callbacks and sync
> up with the corresponding external views on ZK.
>
>  Thanks,
> Jason
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Varun Sharma [[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 05, 2015 9:17 PM
>
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: Excessive ZooKeeper load
>
>   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.zk
>>>>>>>>>> client.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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