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James Taylor commented on PHOENIX-2405:
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For an end-to-end test, yes spinning up a mini cluster is necessary. We
amortize this cost by spinning up a single one and running lots of test suites
on the same one. You can write lower level tests too that test at the iterator
level. See MergeSortResultIteratorTest , SpoolingResultIteratorTest, and others
in org.apache.phoenix.iterate package as well. Also, please make sure to @
mention your primary mentor, [~maryannxue].
> Improve performance and stability of server side sort for ORDER BY
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>
> Key: PHOENIX-2405
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-2405
> Project: Phoenix
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: James Taylor
> Assignee: Haoran Zhang
> Labels: gsoc2016
> Fix For: 4.8.0
>
>
> We currently use memory mapped files to buffer data as it's being sorted in
> an ORDER BY (see MappedByteBufferQueue). The following types of exceptions
> have been seen to occur:
> {code}
> Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Map failed
> at sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl.map0(Native Method)
> at sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl.map(FileChannelImpl.java:904)
> {code}
> [~apurtell] has read that memory mapped files are not cleaned up after very
> well in Java:
> {quote}
> "Map failed" means the JVM ran out of virtual address space. If you search
> around stack overflow for suggestions on what to do when your app (in this
> case Phoenix) encounters this issue when using mapped buffers, the answers
> tend toward manually cleaning up the mapped buffers or explicitly triggering
> a full GC. See
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8553158/prevent-outofmemory-when-using-java-nio-mappedbytebuffer
> for example. There are apparently long standing JVM/JRE problems with
> reclamation of mapped buffers. I think we may want to explore in Phoenix a
> different way to achieve what the current code is doing.
> {quote}
> Instead of using memory mapped files, we could use heap memory, or perhaps
> there are other mechanisms too.
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