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Beam JIRA Bot commented on BEAM-690:
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This issue was marked "stale-P2" and has not received a public comment in 14
days. It is now automatically moved to P3. If you are still affected by it, you
can comment and move it back to P2.
> Backoff in the DirectRunner Monitor if no work is Available
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> Key: BEAM-690
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-690
> Project: Beam
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: runner-direct
> Reporter: Thomas Groh
> Priority: P3
> Time Spent: 50m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> When a Pipeline has no elements available to process, the Monitor Runnable
> will be repeatedly scheduled. Given that there is no work to be done, this
> will loop over the steps in the transform looking for timers, and prompt the
> sources to perform additional work, even though there is no work to be done.
> This consumes the entirety of a single core.
> Add a bounded backoff to rescheduling the monitor runnable if no work has
> been done since it last ran. This will reduce resource consumption on
> low-throughput Pipelines.
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