Ah, ok. So 32 bytes is required for each pointer to an event. We'll amend our heap size accordingly. We may also be able to reduce our FileChannel size. We hadn't understood the implications of the capacity value of the FileChannel we have been using.
Regarding the multiple data directories, I hadn't realised that that implied distinct disks. Just to confirm, you're saying that each data directory has to be on a distinct disk? Is it that FileChannel can't utilise an entire disk from an IO perspective, regardless of how big the disk is? Or is this size-dependent? i.e above a certain size, you need a second data directory? If the latter, could you let me know what that size is? If it's a general point, then I'll follow the earlier advice of 2 data dirs per file channel. Apologies for all the questions! We had made an estimation of disk space (avg event size (~250 bytes) * channel size (150M)) and have provisioned disks that are significantly larger than the required space. Thanks, Umesh ________________________________ From: Brock Noland [[email protected]] Sent: 30 January 2014 14:38 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: checkpoint lifecycle On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Umesh Telang <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Brock, Our heap size is 2GB. That is not enough heap for 150M events. It's 150 million * 32 bytes = 4.5GB + say 100-500MB for the rest of Flume. Thanks for the advice on data directories. Could you please let me know the heuristic for that? (e.g. 1 data directory per N-sized channel where N is...) File channel at present cannot utilize an entire disk from a IO perspective, that is why I suggest multiple disks. Of course you'll want to ensure that you have enough disk to support a full channel, but that is a different discussion (avg event size * channel size). Thanks also for suggesting back up checkpoints - are these something that increases the integrity of Flume's execution in an automatic fashion, or does it aid in some form of manual recovery? Automatic. If flume is killed or shutdown during a checkpoint that checkpoint is invalid and unless a backup checkpoint exists a full replay will have to take place. Furthermore, without FLUME-2155 full replays are very time consuming under certain conditions. Re: FLUME-2155, I've scanned through it, and will read it in more detail. I'm not sure about the unit of measurement for some of the metrics (milliseconds?), but is there any guidance as to at which order of magnitude (10^4, 10^6 or 10^8 ?) the channel size causes the replay issue to become apparent? It's not purely about channel size. Specifically it's about: 1) Large channel size 2) Having a large number of events in your channel (queue depth) 3) Having run the channel for some time such that old WAL's were cleaned up (causing there to be removes for which no event exists) 4) Performing a full replay in these conditions Generally I wouldn't go over a 1M channel size without backup checkpoint, this change, or both. There are more details here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-2155?focusedCommentId=13841465&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13841465 Brock ---------------------------- http://www.bbc.co.uk This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this. ---------------------
