Add some more flags: -XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions -XX:LogFile=${path}
-XX:+LogVMOutputI never figured out what kills stdout for C*. It's a library we depend on, didn't try too hard to figure out which one. On 29 January 2014 21:07, Frank Ng <fnt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Benedict, > Thanks for the advice. I've tried turning on PrintSafepointStatistics. > However, that info is only sent to the STDOUT console. The cassandra > startup script closes the STDOUT when it finishes, so nothing is shown for > safepoint statistics once it's done starting up. Do you know how to > startup cassandra and send all stdout to a log file and tell cassandra not > to close stdout? > > Also, we have swap turned off as recommended. > > thanks > > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Benedict Elliott Smith < > belliottsm...@datastax.com> wrote: > >> Frank, >> >> >> The same advice for investigating holds: add the VM flags >> -XX:+PrintSafepointStatistics -XX:PrintSafepointStatisticsCount=1 (you >> could put something above 1 there, to reduce the amount of logging, since a >> pause of 52s will be pretty obvious even if aggregated with lots of other >> safe points; the count is the number of safepoints to aggregate into one log >> message) >> >> >> 52s is a very extreme pause, and I would be surprised if revoke bias could >> cause this. I wonder if the VM is swapping out. >> >> >> >> On 29 January 2014 19:02, Frank Ng <fnt...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Thanks for the update. Our logs indicated that there were 0 pending for >>> CompactionManager at that time. Also, there were no nodetool repairs >>> running at that time. The log statements above state that the application >>> had to stop to reach a safepoint. Yet, it doesn't say what is requesting >>> the safepoint. >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Shao-Chuan Wang < >>> shaochuan.w...@bloomreach.com> wrote: >>> >>>> We had similar latency spikes when pending compactions can't keep it up >>>> or repair/streaming taking too much cycles. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Frank Ng <fnt...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> All, >>>>> >>>>> We've been having intermittent long application pauses (version 1.2.8) >>>>> and not sure if it's a cassandra bug. During these pauses, there are >>>>> dropped messages in the cassandra log file along with the node seeing >>>>> other >>>>> nodes as down. We've turned on gc logging and the following is an example >>>>> of a long "stopped" or pause event in the gc.log file. >>>>> >>>>> 2014-01-28T23:11:12.183-0500: 1337654.424: Total time for which >>>>> application threads were stopped: 0.091450 seconds >>>>> 2014-01-28T23:14:11.161-0500: 1337833.401: Total time for which >>>>> application threads were stopped: 51.8190260 seconds >>>>> 2014-01-28T23:14:19.870-0500: 1337842.111: Total time for which >>>>> application threads were stopped: 0.005470 seconds >>>>> >>>>> As seen above, there was a 0.091450 secs pause, then a 51.8190260 secs >>>>> pause. There were no GC log events between those 2 log statements. Since >>>>> there's no GC logs in between, something else must be causing the long >>>>> stop >>>>> time to reach a safepoint. >>>>> >>>>> Could there be a Cassandra thread that is taking a long time to reach >>>>> a safepoint and what is it trying to do? Along with the node seeing other >>>>> nodes as down in the cassandra log file, the StatusLogger shows 1599 >>>>> Pending in ReadStage and 9 Pending in MutationStage. >>>>> >>>>> There is mention of cassandra batch revoke bias locks as a possible >>>>> cause (not GC) via: >>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/msg34401.html >>>>> >>>>> We have JNA, no swap, and the cluster runs fine besides there >>>>> intermittent long pause that can cause a node to appear down to other >>>>> nodes. Any ideas as the cause of the long pause above? It seems not >>>>> related to GC. >>>>> >>>>> thanks. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >
