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Stephan Ewen commented on FLINK-17820:
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I see. You cannot rely on {{close()}} here as well, because that closes the
underlying stream in a "close for dispose" manner. That is indeed a bit of a
design shortcoming in the {{CheckpointStateOutputStream}} class.
My feeling is that this assumption of {{DataOutputStream}} being non-buffering
is made in some other parts of the code.
What do you think about adding a test that guards this assumption?
We also have the {{DataOutputViewStreamWrapper}} class which is an extension of
{{DataOutputStream}} - we could use that, guard it with a "does not buffer"
test and if we ever find it actually buffers, then we need to implement the
methods directly, rather than inherit from {{DataOutputStream}}.
> Memory threshold is ignored for channel state
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>
> Key: FLINK-17820
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-17820
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Runtime / Checkpointing, Runtime / Task
> Affects Versions: 1.11.0
> Reporter: Roman Khachatryan
> Assignee: Roman Khachatryan
> Priority: Critical
> Labels: pull-request-available
> Fix For: 1.11.0
>
>
> Config parameter state.backend.fs.memory-threshold is ignored for channel
> state. Causing each subtask to have a file per checkpoint. Regardless of the
> size of channel state (of this subtask).
> This also causes slow cleanup and delays the next checkpoint.
>
> The problem is that {{ChannelStateCheckpointWriter.finishWriteAndResult}}
> calls flush(); which actually flushes the data on disk.
>
> From FSDataOutputStream.flush Javadoc:
> A completed flush does not mean that the data is necessarily persistent. Data
> persistence can is only assumed after calls to close() or sync().
>
> Possible solutions:
> 1. not to flush in {{ChannelStateCheckpointWriter.finishWriteAndResult (which
> can lead to data loss in a wrapping stream).}}
> {{2. change }}{{FsCheckpointStateOutputStream.flush behavior}}
> {{3. wrap }}{{FsCheckpointStateOutputStream to prevent flush}}{{}}{{}}
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