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Bob Hansen commented on HDFS-8855:
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This has the same description as HDFS-7597, although the patch is in the UGI
space, which surprises me. It speaks of the RPC layer caching the NN
connection but that cache not being re-used because the UGI is created anew for
each webhdfs request.
> Webhdfs client leaks active NameNode connections
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> Key: HDFS-8855
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-8855
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: webhdfs
> Environment: HDP 2.2
> Reporter: Bob Hansen
> Assignee: Xiaobing Zhou
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> The attached script simulates a process opening ~50 files via webhdfs and
> performing random reads. Note that there are at most 50 concurrent reads,
> and all webhdfs sessions are kept open. Each read is ~64k at a random
> position.
> The script periodically (once per second) shells into the NameNode and
> produces a summary of the socket states. For my test cluster with 5 nodes,
> it took ~30 seconds for the NameNode to have ~25000 active connections and
> fails.
> It appears that each request to the webhdfs client is opening a new
> connection to the NameNode and keeping it open after the request is complete.
> If the process continues to run, eventually (~30-60 seconds), all of the
> open connections are closed and the NameNode recovers.
> This smells like SoftReference reaping. Are we using SoftReferences in the
> webhdfs client to cache NameNode connections but never re-using them?
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