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stack commented on HBASE-6060:
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@Ram Thinking on it, the way to plug the hole you and Rajesh have identfied is
by having the RS update the znode to OPENING form OFFINE before returning from
the open rpc call.
The way I see it, we've found problems in our RegionState. As it is now, we
cannot ask RegionState to reliably find the state of a region. Its so bad, you
fellas went and made a solution figuring where a region is at using another
system altogether, the RegionPlan state which strikes me as a little odd;
because the system we should be relying on is broke -- RegionState -- you
fellas look at the ghost traces of region moves, the impression left in
RegionPlan. Is this a fair characterization?
Don't you think we should fix RegionState while we're in here?
I've been working on a patch but was going to do it piecemeal, fix hbase-6199
first?
> Regions's in OPENING state from failed regionservers takes a long time to
> recover
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>
> Key: HBASE-6060
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-6060
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: master, regionserver
> Reporter: Enis Soztutar
> Assignee: rajeshbabu
> Fix For: 0.96.0, 0.94.1, 0.92.3
>
> Attachments: 6060-94-v3.patch, 6060-94-v4.patch, 6060-94-v4_1.patch,
> 6060-94-v4_1.patch, 6060-trunk.patch, 6060-trunk.patch, 6060-trunk_2.patch,
> 6060-trunk_3.patch, 6060_alternative_suggestion.txt,
> 6060_suggestion2_based_off_v3.patch, 6060_suggestion_based_off_v3.patch,
> 6060_suggestion_toassign_rs_wentdown_beforerequest.patch,
> HBASE-6060-92.patch, HBASE-6060-94.patch, HBASE-6060-trunk_4.patch,
> HBASE-6060_trunk_5.patch
>
>
> we have seen a pattern in tests, that the regions are stuck in OPENING state
> for a very long time when the region server who is opening the region fails.
> My understanding of the process:
>
> - master calls rs to open the region. If rs is offline, a new plan is
> generated (a new rs is chosen). RegionState is set to PENDING_OPEN (only in
> master memory, zk still shows OFFLINE). See HRegionServer.openRegion(),
> HMaster.assign()
> - RegionServer, starts opening a region, changes the state in znode. But
> that znode is not ephemeral. (see ZkAssign)
> - Rs transitions zk node from OFFLINE to OPENING. See
> OpenRegionHandler.process()
> - rs then opens the region, and changes znode from OPENING to OPENED
> - when rs is killed between OPENING and OPENED states, then zk shows OPENING
> state, and the master just waits for rs to change the region state, but since
> rs is down, that wont happen.
> - There is a AssignmentManager.TimeoutMonitor, which does exactly guard
> against these kind of conditions. It periodically checks (every 10 sec by
> default) the regions in transition to see whether they timedout
> (hbase.master.assignment.timeoutmonitor.timeout). Default timeout is 30 min,
> which explains what you and I are seeing.
> - ServerShutdownHandler in Master does not reassign regions in OPENING
> state, although it handles other states.
> Lowering that threshold from the configuration is one option, but still I
> think we can do better.
> Will investigate more.
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