Esteban Gutierrez created HBASE-12369: -----------------------------------------
Summary: Warn if hbase.bucketcache.size too close or equal to MaxDirectMemorySize Key: HBASE-12369 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-12369 Project: HBase Issue Type: Bug Components: regionserver Reporter: Esteban Gutierrez Our ref guide currently says that its required to leave some room from the DirectMemory. However if hbase.bucketcache.size is too close or equal to MaxDirectMemorySize it can trigger OOMEs: {code} 2014-10-28 16:14:41,585 INFO [master//172.16.0.101:16020] util.ByteBufferArray: Allocating buffers total=5.00 GB, sizePerBuffer=4 MB, count=1280, direct=true 2014-10-28 16:14:41,604 INFO [172.16.0.101:16020.activeMasterManager] master.ServerManager: Waiting for region servers count to settle; currently checked in 1, slept for 99 ms, expecting minimum of 2, maximum of 2147483647, timeout of 4500 ms, interval of 1500 ms. 2014-10-28 16:14:43,144 INFO [172.16.0.101:16020.activeMasterManager] master.ServerManager: Waiting for region servers count to settle; currently checked in 1, slept for 1639 ms, expecting minimum of 2, maximum of 2147483647, timeout of 4500 ms, interval of 1500 ms. 2014-10-28 16:14:44,057 INFO [master//172.16.0.101:16020] regionserver.HRegionServer: STOPPED: Failed initialization 2014-10-28 16:14:44,058 ERROR [master//172.16.0.101:16020] regionserver.HRegionServer: Failed init java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Direct buffer memory at java.nio.Bits.reserveMemory(Bits.java:658) at java.nio.DirectByteBuffer.<init>(DirectByteBuffer.java:123) at java.nio.ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(ByteBuffer.java:306) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.ByteBufferArray.<init>(ByteBufferArray.java:65) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.hfile.bucket.ByteBufferIOEngine.<init>(ByteBufferIOEngine.java:47) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.hfile.bucket.BucketCache.getIOEngineFromName(BucketCache.java:310) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.hfile.bucket.BucketCache.<init>(BucketCache.java:218) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.hfile.CacheConfig.getL2(CacheConfig.java:513) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.hfile.CacheConfig.instantiateBlockCache(CacheConfig.java:536) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.hfile.CacheConfig.<init>(CacheConfig.java:213) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegionServer.handleReportForDutyResponse(HRegionServer.java:1259) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegionServer.run(HRegionServer.java:818) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724) {code} It would be helpful to print a warn message that hbase.bucketcache.size too close or equal to MaxDirectMemorySize. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)