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Thomas Wozniakowski commented on FLINK-19970:
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Hi [~dwysakowicz],
Sorry for not including that info in the original post.
We are using event time with a custom watermarking strategy based on an average
of the last 10 events' timestamps + a constant buffer of 15 minutes.
The watermarking strategy is working just fine. Test #2 is actually still
running and I can see the Low Watermark of the CEP operators is 1604492129185
(15 minutes ago) as expected.
Note that this setup is also producing matches just fine (with increased
frequency of event emission). If the watermarks weren't being correctly
assigned then we would never see matches coming out the other end of the CEP
operators, right?
> State leak in CEP Operators (expired events/keys not removed from state)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: FLINK-19970
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-19970
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Library / CEP
> Affects Versions: 1.11.2
> Environment: Flink 1.11.2 run using the official docker containers in
> AWS ECS Fargate.
> 1 Job Manager, 1 Taskmanager with 2vCPUs and 8GB memory
> Reporter: Thomas Wozniakowski
> Priority: Critical
> Attachments: image-2020-11-04-11-35-12-126.png
>
>
> We have been observing instability in our production environment recently,
> seemingly related to state backends. We ended up building a load testing
> environment to isolate factors and have discovered that the CEP library
> appears to have some serious problems with state expiry.
> h2. Job Topology
> Source: Kinesis (standard connector) -> keyBy() and forward to...
> CEP: Array of simple Keyed CEP Pattern operators (details below) -> forward
> output to...
> Sink: SQS (custom connector)
> The CEP Patterns in the test look like this:
> {code:java}
> Pattern.begin(SCANS_SEQUENCE, AfterMatchSkipStrategy.skipPastLastEvent())
> .times(20)
> .subtype(ScanEvent.class)
> .within(Duration.minutes(30));
> {code}
> h2. Taskmanager Config
> {code:java}
> taskmanager.numberOfTaskSlots: $numberOfTaskSlots
> taskmanager.data.port: 6121
> taskmanager.rpc.port: 6122
> taskmanager.exit-on-fatal-akka-error: true
> taskmanager.memory.process.size: $memoryProcessSize
> taskmanager.memory.jvm-metaspace.size: 256m
> taskmanager.memory.managed.size: 0m
> jobmanager.rpc.port: 6123
> blob.server.port: 6130
> rest.port: 8081
> web.submit.enable: true
> fs.s3a.connection.maximum: 50
> fs.s3a.threads.max: 50
> akka.framesize: 250m
> akka.watch.threshold: 14
> state.checkpoints.dir: s3://$savepointBucketName/checkpoints
> state.savepoints.dir: s3://$savepointBucketName/savepoints
> state.backend: filesystem
> state.backend.async: true
> s3.access-key: $s3AccessKey
> s3.secret-key: $s3SecretKey
> {code}
> (the substitutions are controlled by terraform).
> h2. Tests
> h4. Test 1 (No key rotation)
> 8192 actors (different keys) emitting 1 Scan Event every 10 minutes
> indefinitely. Actors (keys) never rotate in or out.
> h4. Test 2 (Constant key rotation)
> 8192 actors that produce 2 Scan events 10 minutes apart, then retire and
> never emit again. The setup creates new actors (keys) as soon as one finishes
> so we always have 8192. This test basically constantly rotates the key space.
> h2. Results
> For both tests, the state size (checkpoint size) grows unbounded and linearly
> well past the 30 minute threshold that should have caused old keys or events
> to be discard from the state. In the chart below, the left (steep) half is
> the 24 hours we ran Test 1, the right (shallow) half is Test 2.
> !image-2020-11-04-11-35-12-126.png!
> Could someone please assist us with this? Unless we have dramatically
> misunderstood how the CEP library is supposed to function this seems like a
> pretty severe bug.
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