Can you tell us the version of HBase you are using ? Gary did some cleanup in:
r1439723 | garyh | 2013-01-28 16:50:02 -0800 (Mon, 28 Jan 2013) | 1 line HBASE-7626 Backport client connection cleanup from HBASE-7460 This is the current code in getConnection() in 0.94 branch: ConnectionId remoteId = new ConnectionId(addr, protocol, ticket, rpcTimeout); synchronized (connections) { connection = connections.get(remoteId); if (connection == null) { connection = createConnection(remoteId); connections.put(remoteId, connection); } } connection.addCall(call); On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Jeff Whiting <je...@qualtrics.com> wrote: > After noticing a lot of threads, I turned on debugging logging for hbase > client and saw this many times counting up constantly: > HBaseClient:531 - IPC Client (687163870) connection to > /10.1.37.21:60020from jeff: starting, having connections 1364 > > At that point in my code it was up to 1364 different connections (and > threads). Those connections will eventually drop off after the idle time > is reached "conf.getInt("hbase.ipc.client.connection.maxidletime", 10000)". > But during periods of activity the number of threads can get very high. > > Additionally I was able to confirm the large number of threads by doing: > > jstack <pid> | grep IPC > > > So I started digging around in the code... > > In HBaseClient.getConnection it attempts to reuse previous connections: > > ConnectionId remoteId = new ConnectionId(addr, protocol, ticket, > rpcTimeout); > do { > synchronized (connections) { > connection = connections.get(remoteId); > if (connection == null) { > LOG.error("poolsize: "+getPoolSize(conf)); > connection = new Connection(remoteId); > connections.put(remoteId, connection); > } > } > } while (!connection.addCall(call)); > > > It does this by using the connection id as the key to the pool. All of this > seems good except ConnectionId never hashes to the same value so it cannot > reuse any connection. > > From my understanding of the code here is why. > > In HBaseClient.ConnectionId > > @Override > public boolean equals(Object obj) { > if (obj instanceof ConnectionId) { > ConnectionId id = (ConnectionId) obj; > return address.equals(id.address) && protocol == id.protocol && > ((ticket != null && ticket.equals(id.ticket)) || > (ticket == id.ticket)) && rpcTimeout == id.rpcTimeout; > } > return false; > } > > @Override // simply use the default Object#hashcode() ? > public int hashCode() { > return (address.hashCode() + PRIME * ( > PRIME * System.identityHashCode(protocol) ^ > (ticket == null ? 0 : ticket.hashCode()) )) ^ rpcTimeout; > } > > It uses the protocol and the ticket in the both functions. However going > back through all of the layers I think I found the problem. > > Problem: > > HBaseRPC.java: public static VersionedProtocol getProxy(Class<? extends > VersionedProtocol> protocol, > long clientVersion, InetSocketAddress addr, Configuration conf, > SocketFactory factory, int rpcTimeout) throws IOException { > return getProxy(protocol, clientVersion, addr, > User.getCurrent(), conf, factory, rpcTimeout); > } > > User.getCurrent() always returns a new User object. That user instance is > eventually passed down to ConnectionId. However the User object doesn't > implement hash() or equals() so one ConnectionId won't ever match another > ConnectionId. > > > There are several possible solutions. > 1. implement hashCode and equals for the User. > 2. only create one User object and reuse it. > 3. don't look at ticket in ConnectionId (probably a bad idea) > > > Thoughts? Has anyone else noticed this behavior? Should I open up a jira > issue? > > I originally ran into the problem due to OS X having a limited number of > threads per user (and I was not able to increase the limit) and our unit > tests making requests quick enough that I ran out of threads. I tried out > all three solutions and it worked fine for my application. However I'm not > sure what changing the behavior would do to other's applications especially > those that use SecureHadoop. > > > > Thanks, > ~Jeff > > -- > Jeff Whiting > Qualtrics Senior Software Engineer > je...@qualtrics.com >