Re: [akka-user] Re: Akka Persistent Actor stops processing messages

2017-01-18 Thread Patrik Nordwall
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 9:31 AM, Richard Ney wrote: > I've done several thread dumps and the two dispatcher pools dealing with > Cassandra have all their threads WAITING or TIMED_WAIT and based on their > call stacks it appears they aren't doing any work like waiting for > Cassandra to return unl

Re: [akka-user] Re: Akka Persistent Actor stops processing messages

2017-01-18 Thread Richard Ney
I've done several thread dumps and the two dispatcher pools dealing with Cassandra have all their threads WAITING or TIMED_WAIT and based on their call stacks it appears they aren't doing any work like waiting for Cassandra to return unless I'm reading them wrong. "manhattan-cassandra-plugin-de

Re: [akka-user] Re: Akka Persistent Actor stops processing messages

2017-01-17 Thread Patrik Nordwall
I think the bottleneck is the serialization or the writes to Cassandra, both happening in the Cassandra journal (akka-persistence-cassandra). Are you using the latest version of akka-persistence-cassandra? Such things should run on cassandra-plugin-default-dispatcher or cassandra-plugin-blocking-di

[akka-user] Re: Akka Persistent Actor stops processing messages

2017-01-16 Thread Richard Ney
I should clarify my post. My messages aren't backing up in those three queues at the same time, the problem has moved each time I've changed the actor's queuing behavior. The first time I examined a heap dump all the objects were in the mailbox of the actor. So I changed the mailbox to use a bo