Hi Kien >From your description, your job has already started to execute checkpoint >after job failover, which means your job was in RUNNING status. From my point >of view, the actual recovery time should be the time during job's status: >RESTARTING->CREATED->RUNNING[1]. Your trouble sounds more like the long time needed for the first checkpoint to complete after job failover. Afaik, It's probably because your job is heavily back pressured after the failover and the checkpoint mode is exactly-once, some operators need to receive all the input checkpoint barrier to trigger the checkpoint. You can watch your metrics of checkpoint alignment time to verify the root cause, and if you do not need the exactly once guarantees, you can change the checkpoint mode to at-least-once[2].
Best Yun Tang [1] https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-master/internals/job_scheduling.html#jobmanager-data-structures [2] https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-stable/internals/stream_checkpointing.html#exactly-once-vs-at-least-once [https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.6/fig/stream_barriers.svg]<https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-stable/internals/stream_checkpointing.html#exactly-once-vs-at-least-once> Apache Flink 1.6 Documentation: Data Streaming Fault Tolerance<https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-stable/internals/stream_checkpointing.html#exactly-once-vs-at-least-once> Apache Flink offers a fault tolerance mechanism to consistently recover the state of data streaming applications. The mechanism ensures that even in the presence of failures, the program’s state will eventually reflect every record from the data stream exactly once. Note that there is a switch to ... ci.apache.org ________________________________ From: trung kien <kient...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2018 18:50 To: user@flink.apache.org Subject: Flink failure recovery tooks very long time Hi all, I am trying to test failure recovery of a Flink job when a JM or TM goes down. Our target is having job auto restart and back to normal condition in any case. However, what's I am seeing is very strange and hope someone here help me to understand it. When JM or TM went down, I see the job was being restarted but as soon as it restart it's working on checkingpoint and usually took 30+ minutes to finish (usually in normal case, it only take 1-2 mins for checkpoint), As soon as the checkpoint is finish, the job is back to normal condition. I'm using 1.4.2, but seeing similar thing on 1.6.0 as well. Could anyone please help to explain this behavior? We really want to reduce the time of recovery but doesn't seem to find any document mentioned about recovery process in detail. Any help is really appreciate. -- Thanks Kien -- Thanks Kien
