Hi Till,

Got it, that definitely makes sense, was just looking for some ballpark number 
to start with. Appreciate your help!

Thanks,
Sonam
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From: Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org>
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2021 1:00 AM
To: Sonam Mandal <soman...@linkedin.com>
Cc: dhanesh arole <davcdhane...@gmail.com>; Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai 
<tzuli...@apache.org>; user@flink.apache.org <user@flink.apache.org>
Subject: Re: How to know if task-local recovery kicked in for some nodes?

Hi Sonam,

The state size probably depends a bit on your infrastructure. Assuming you have 
1 GBps network connection and local SSDs, then I guess you should see a 
difference if your local state size is  > 1 GB.

Cheers,
Till

On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 1:46 PM Sonam Mandal 
<soman...@linkedin.com<mailto:soman...@linkedin.com>> wrote:
Hi Till and Dhanesh,

Thanks for the insights into both on how to check that this kicks in and on the 
expected behavior. My understanding too was that if multiple TMs are used for 
the job, any TMs that don’t go down can take advantage of local recovery.

Do you have any insights on a good minimum state size we should experiment with 
to check recovery time differences between the two modes?

Thanks,
Sonam
________________________________
From: dhanesh arole <davcdhane...@gmail.com<mailto:davcdhane...@gmail.com>>
Sent: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 3:43:11 AM
To: Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org<mailto:trohrm...@apache.org>>
Cc: Sonam Mandal <soman...@linkedin.com<mailto:soman...@linkedin.com>>; Tzu-Li 
(Gordon) Tai <tzuli...@apache.org<mailto:tzuli...@apache.org>>; 
user@flink.apache.org<mailto:user@flink.apache.org> 
<user@flink.apache.org<mailto:user@flink.apache.org>>
Subject: Re: How to know if task-local recovery kicked in for some nodes?

Hi Till,

You are right. To give you more context about our setup, we are running 1 task 
slot per task manager and total number of task manager replicas equal to job 
parallelism. The issue actually exacerbates during rolling deployment of task 
managers as each TM goes offline and comes back online again after some time. 
So during bouncing of every TM pod somehow task allocation changes and finally 
job stabilises once all TMs are restarted.  Maybe a proper blue green setup 
would allow us to make the best use of local recovery during restart of TMs. 
But during intermittent failures of one of the TMs local recovery works as 
expected on the other healthy TM instances ( I.e it does not download from 
remote ).

On Wed, 7 Apr 2021 at 10:35 Till Rohrmann 
<trohrm...@apache.org<mailto:trohrm...@apache.org>> wrote:
Hi Dhanesh,

if some of the previously used TMs are still available, then Flink should try 
to redeploy tasks onto them also in case of a global failover. Only those tasks 
which have been executed on the lost TaskManager will need new slots and have 
to download the state from the remote storage.

Cheers,
Till

On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 5:35 PM dhanesh arole 
<davcdhane...@gmail.com<mailto:davcdhane...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Sonam,

We have a similar setup. What I have observed is, when the task manager pod 
gets killed and restarts again ( i.e. the entire task manager process restarts 
) then local recovery doesn't happen. Task manager restore process actually 
downloads the latest completed checkpoint from the remote state handle even 
when the older localState data is available. This happens because with every 
run allocation-ids for tasks running on task manager change as task manager 
restart causes global job failure and restart.

Local recovery - i.e task restore process using locally stored checkpoint data 
kicks in when the task manager process is alive but due to some other reason ( 
like timeout from sink or external dependency ) one of the tasks fails and the 
flink job gets restarted by the job manager.

Please CMIIW


-
Dhanesh Arole

On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 11:35 AM Till Rohrmann 
<trohrm...@apache.org<mailto:trohrm...@apache.org>> wrote:
Hi Sonam,

The easiest way to see whether local state has been used for recovery is the 
recovery time. Apart from that you can also look for "Found registered local 
state for checkpoint {} in subtask ({} - {} - {}" in the logs which is logged 
on debug. This indicates that the local state is available. However, it does 
not say whether it is actually used. E.g. when doing a rescaling operation we 
change the assignment of key group ranges which prevents local state from being 
used. However in case of a recovery the above-mentioned log message should 
indicate that we use local state recovery.

Cheers,
Till

On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 11:31 AM Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai 
<tzuli...@apache.org<mailto:tzuli...@apache.org>> wrote:
Hi Sonam,

Pulling in Till (cc'ed), I believe he would likely be able to help you here.

Cheers,
Gordon

On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 8:18 AM Sonam Mandal 
<soman...@linkedin.com<mailto:soman...@linkedin.com>> wrote:
Hello,

We are experimenting with task local recovery and I wanted to know whether 
there is a way to validate that some tasks of the job recovered from the local 
state rather than the remote state.

We've currently set this up to have 2 Task Managers with 2 slots each, and we 
run a job with parallelism 4. To simulate failure, we kill one of the Task 
Manager pods (we run on Kubernetes). I want to see if the local state of the 
other Task Manager was used or not. I do understand that the state for the 
killed Task Manager will need to be fetched from the checkpoint.

Also, do you have any suggestions on how to test such failure scenarios in a 
better way?

Thanks,
Sonam
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