Jeff:
Thanks for reporting the bug.
Patch is available in HBASE-8222. It should go into 0.94.7
If you cannot wait, feel free to apply by yourself.
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Jeff Whiting <je...@qualtrics.com> wrote:
> I am using cdh4.1.3 which roughly maps to 0.92.1 with patches.
>
> ~Jeff
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 1:40 PM, ramkrishna vasudevan <
> ramkrishna.s.vasude...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Nice one.. Good find.
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Jeff Whiting
> Qualtrics Senior Software Engineer
> je...@qualtrics.com
>
