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Christian Esken edited comment on CASSANDRA-13265 at 3/10/17 5:05 PM: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I committed the change containing the configuration, as I would like some feedback whether I am on the right path. Please note that I did not yet have time for tests (planned for next Monday), but I thought it is better to give a chance to review the current changes. I also had to add back "AtomicBoolean backlogExpirationActive" Otherwise I cannot guarantee that only a single Thread is iterating the Queue, especially if a small expiration interval (1ms, or 0ms) is configured. The "AtomicLong backlogNextExpirationTime" could now be "volatile long". was (Author: cesken): I committed the change containing the configuration, as I would like some feedback whether I am on the right path. Please note that I did not yet have time for tests (planned for next Monday), but I thought it is better to give a chance to review the current changes. Please note that I had to add back "AtomicBoolean backlogExpirationActive" Otherwise I cannot guarantee that only a single Thread is iterating the Queue, especially if a small expiration interval (1ms, or 0ms) is configured. The "AtomicLong backlogNextExpirationTime" could now be "volatile long". > Expiration in OutboundTcpConnection can block the reader Thread > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-13265 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13265 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Bug > Environment: Cassandra 3.0.9 > Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM version 25.112-b15 (Java version > 1.8.0_112-b15) > Linux 3.16 > Reporter: Christian Esken > Assignee: Christian Esken > Attachments: cassandra.pb-cache4-dus.2017-02-17-19-36-26.chist.xz, > cassandra.pb-cache4-dus.2017-02-17-19-36-26.td.xz > > > I observed that sometimes a single node in a Cassandra cluster fails to > communicate to the other nodes. This can happen at any time, during peak load > or low load. Restarting that single node from the cluster fixes the issue. > Before going in to details, I want to state that I have analyzed the > situation and am already developing a possible fix. Here is the analysis so > far: > - A Threaddump in this situation showed 324 Threads in the > OutboundTcpConnection class that want to lock the backlog queue for doing > expiration. > - A class histogram shows 262508 instances of > OutboundTcpConnection$QueuedMessage. > What is the effect of it? As soon as the Cassandra node has reached a certain > amount of queued messages, it starts thrashing itself to death. Each of the > Thread fully locks the Queue for reading and writing by calling > iterator.next(), making the situation worse and worse. > - Writing: Only after 262508 locking operation it can progress with actually > writing to the Queue. > - Reading: Is also blocked, as 324 Threads try to do iterator.next(), and > fully lock the Queue > This means: Writing blocks the Queue for reading, and readers might even be > starved which makes the situation even worse. > ----- > The setup is: > - 3-node cluster > - replication factor 2 > - Consistency LOCAL_ONE > - No remote DC's > - high write throughput (100000 INSERT statements per second and more during > peak times). > -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)