I don't think is truly unbounded, IIRC it s limited to the maximum allocated heap.
thanks, esteban. -- Cloudera, Inc. On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 1:11 PM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote: > From https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E15289_01/doc.40/e15062/optionxx.htm : > > java -XX:MaxDirectMemorySize=2g myApp > > Default Value > > The default value is zero, which means the maximum direct memory is > unbounded. > > On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Vladimir Rodionov < > vladrodio...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> XXMaxDirectMemorySize is set to the default 0, which means unlimited > as > > far > > >> as I can tell. > > > > Not sure if this is true. The only conforming that link I found was for > > JRockit JVM. > > > > On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 11:29 PM, Daniel Jeliński <djelins...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Vladimir, > > > XXMaxDirectMemorySize is set to the default 0, which means unlimited as > > far > > > as I can tell. > > > Thanks, > > > Daniel > > > > > > 2017-10-09 19:30 GMT+02:00 Vladimir Rodionov <vladrodio...@gmail.com>: > > > > > > > Have you try to increase direct memory size for server process? > > > > -XXMaxDirectMemorySize=? > > > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 2:12 AM, Daniel Jeliński < > djelins...@gmail.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > I'm running an application doing a lot of Puts (size anywhere > > between 0 > > > > and > > > > > 10MB, one cell at a time); occasionally I'm getting an error like > the > > > > > below: > > > > > 2017-10-09 04:29:29,811 WARN [AsyncProcess] - #13368, > > > > > table=researchplatform:repo_stripe, attempt=1/1 failed=1ops, last > > > > > exception: java.io.IOException: com.google.protobuf. > > ServiceException: > > > > > java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Direct buffer memory on > > > > > c169dzv.int.westgroup.com,60020,1506476748534, tracking started > Mon > > > Oct > > > > 09 > > > > > 04:29:29 EDT 2017; not retrying 1 - final failure > > > > > > > > > > After that the connection to RegionServer becomes unusable. Every > > > > > subsequent attempt to execute Put on that connection results in > > > > > CallTimeoutException. I only found the OutOfMemory by reducing the > > > number > > > > > of tries to 1. > > > > > > > > > > The host running HBase appears to have at least a few GB of free > > memory > > > > > available. Server logs do not mention anything about this error. > > > Cluster > > > > is > > > > > running HBase 1.2.0-cdh5.10.2. > > > > > > > > > > Is this a known problem? Are there workarounds available? > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Daniel > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >