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ASF GitHub Bot commented on TS-4331:
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Github user jpeach commented on a diff in the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/trafficserver/pull/653#discussion_r66907457
  
    --- Diff: iocore/hostdb/Makefile.am ---
    @@ -31,15 +31,58 @@ EXTRA_DIST = I_HostDB.h
     noinst_LIBRARIES = libinkhostdb.a
     
     libinkhostdb_a_SOURCES = \
    +  I_SplitDNS.h \
    +  I_SplitDNSProcessor.h \
       HostDB.cc \
       I_HostDB.h \
       I_HostDBProcessor.h \
       Inline.cc \
    -  MultiCache.cc \
    +  RefCountCache.cc \
       P_HostDB.h \
       P_HostDBProcessor.h \
    -  P_MultiCache.h
    +  P_RefCountCache.h
    +
    +# TODO: collapse into a single?s
    --- End diff --
    
    ``single?s`` ?


> Hostdb consistency problems due to MultiCache
> ---------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: TS-4331
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TS-4331
>             Project: Traffic Server
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: HostDB
>            Reporter: Thomas Jackson
>            Assignee: Thomas Jackson
>             Fix For: 7.0.0
>
>
> This ticket is for the correct long term fix to TS-4207
> pulled from a comment, which wraps up the issue
> {quote}
> Leif Hedstrom I have spent a decent amount of time on this while I was OOO on 
> vacation the last couple of weeks. It seems that the root cause of this issue 
> has always existed, and that the addition of always doing hostname storing 
> (https://github.com/apache/trafficserver/commit/0e703e1e) we are just causing 
> the issue to happen all the time.
> To understand the issue I'll give a little background in how hostdb is 
> currently working. Basically hostdb is just a wrapper around this templated 
> struct called MultiCache. MultiCache is "multi" not because it is templated, 
> but because it has two types of storage (static-- blocks and dynamic-- 
> alloc). The static side of the cache can hold N HostDBInfo structs (the 
> results of DNS queries). The dynamic side is used to store the round robin 
> records and various strings associated with the record. The size of this 
> dynamic space is defined as (N x [estimated_heap_bytes_per_entry. The basic 
> problem we are running into is that we are putting too much preassure on the 
> dynamic heap-- such that the heap is getting re-used while people still have 
> references to items in that space.
> So, I've actually been working on re-writing MultiCache to allocate the 
> entire required block at once (so we don't have this problem where the parent 
> exists but not the children), but I'm not certain if we want such a change to 
> go into the 6.x branch (I'm willing to discuss if we want). If we aren't 
> comfortable with such a large change I suggest just accounting for the 
> hostname size in the estimated_heap_bytes_per_entry as a stopgap solution. 
> The maximum allowable size is 253 (so 254 with null terminator), but we could 
> pick a smaller number (~120 or so seems to be more reasonable). Alternatively 
> you can increase the number of records in hostdb (and the size accordingly) 
> to increase the dynamic heap size.
> TLDR; almost done with the long term solution, but I'm not sure if we want to 
> merge that into 6.x-- alternatively we can do a simple workaround in 6.x 
> (https://github.com/apache/trafficserver/pull/553)
> {quote}



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