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Misha Dmitriev commented on HIVE-17684:
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[~stakiar] this looks generally good. I noticed one or two typos; will take a
deeper look into the code tomorrow.
The main question is: did you actually see the old
{{MapJoinMemoryExhaustionHandler}} working correctly, at least with Hive-on-MR?
My impression so far was that it's just broken, because the JVM cannot report
the exact amount of used memory (i.e. occupied by non-garbage objects), except
maybe after a full GC. If so, then keeping this code around will mean adding
more "cruft" to Hive, which is already not the cleanest code base, and make the
job of maintainters, yourself included, harder. Please let me know what you
think.
> HoS memory issues with MapJoinMemoryExhaustionHandler
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>
> Key: HIVE-17684
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-17684
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Spark
> Reporter: Sahil Takiar
> Assignee: Misha Dmitriev
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: HIVE-17684.01.patch, HIVE-17684.02.patch,
> HIVE-17684.03.patch, HIVE-17684.04.patch, HIVE-17684.05.patch,
> HIVE-17684.06.patch, HIVE-17684.07.patch, HIVE-17684.08.patch
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>
> We have seen a number of memory issues due the {{HashSinkOperator}} use of
> the {{MapJoinMemoryExhaustionHandler}}. This handler is meant to detect
> scenarios where the small table is taking too much space in memory, in which
> case a {{MapJoinMemoryExhaustionError}} is thrown.
> The configs to control this logic are:
> {{hive.mapjoin.localtask.max.memory.usage}} (default 0.90)
> {{hive.mapjoin.followby.gby.localtask.max.memory.usage}} (default 0.55)
> The handler works by using the {{MemoryMXBean}} and uses the following logic
> to estimate how much memory the {{HashMap}} is consuming:
> {{MemoryMXBean#getHeapMemoryUsage().getUsed() /
> MemoryMXBean#getHeapMemoryUsage().getMax()}}
> The issue is that {{MemoryMXBean#getHeapMemoryUsage().getUsed()}} can be
> inaccurate. The value returned by this method returns all reachable and
> unreachable memory on the heap, so there may be a bunch of garbage data, and
> the JVM just hasn't taken the time to reclaim it all. This can lead to
> intermittent failures of this check even though a simple GC would have
> reclaimed enough space for the process to continue working.
> We should re-think the usage of {{MapJoinMemoryExhaustionHandler}} for HoS.
> In Hive-on-MR this probably made sense to use because every Hive task was run
> in a dedicated container, so a Hive Task could assume it created most of the
> data on the heap. However, in Hive-on-Spark there can be multiple Hive Tasks
> running in a single executor, each doing different things.
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