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Maryann Xue commented on PHOENIX-2405: -------------------------------------- [~RCheungIT], like [~jamestaylor] said, I suggest you starting with lower level tests which do not require spinning up the cluster. That way you can 1) significantly accelerate your code debugging and probably maximize test coverage in the shortest time. 2) isolate the problem and do not have to worry about the interference of other Phoenix components. > Improve performance and stability of server side sort for ORDER BY > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > 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. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)