Ilya,

When will an official announcement and support-drop schedule be made about
dropping IGFS?

Thank you,

Chris

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 1:47 PM Chris Software <softwarechri...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I see.  Thank you.
>
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 12:30 PM Ilya Kasnacheev <
> ilya.kasnach...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> This looks like a mistake. However, we're going to drop IGFS so the fix
>> is unlikely to be expected.
>>
>> The recommended practical approach is to increase number of threads in
>> system thread pool to large value.
>>
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Ilya Kasnacheev
>>
>>
>> вт, 27 авг. 2019 г. в 00:34, Chris Software <softwarechri...@gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am working on a project and we have run into two related problems
>>> while doing Map_Reduce on Ignite Filesystem Cache.
>>>
>>> We were originally on Ignite 2.6 but upgraded to 2.7.5 in an
>>> unsuccessful bid to resolve the problem.
>>>
>>> We have a deadlock in our map-reduce process and have reproduced it at
>>> https://github.com/csteppp/ignite-deadlock-issue in
>>> https://github.com/csteppp/ignite-deadlock-issue/blob/master/src/test/java/testignite/MapReduceIgniteTest.java.
>>>
>>>
>>> Basically, if you run the test (mvn test) it will deadlock and hang.  We
>>> have two IgfsTasks created and have set the SYS threadpool to size 2 for
>>> demonstration purposes.  Each IgfsTask sleeps and then writes to a file.
>>> This causes a deadlock because:
>>> 1.  The IgfsTask is run in the SYS pool.
>>> 2.  The Igfs write action uses a separate thread in the SYS pool
>>> 3.  Then if there are no empty threads available, the whole system
>>> hangs.
>>>
>>> First, shouldn't executeAsync execute the task in the PUBLIC pool?
>>> Using the SYS pool seems unnecessarily risky, as we found it actually *locks
>>> up an entire cluster of many ignite nodes *when it deadlocks.  How do I
>>> get it to use the PUBLIC pool?  Also, since it is using the SYS pool, it
>>> actually seems to execute this on the client.  This is not obvious in this
>>> test, but in my real cluster of 30 nodes, the client seems to be doing this
>>> work, which is a problem.
>>>
>>> Second, is it bad form to open a file within a map-reduce?  Even using
>>> the public pool will not solve the inherent deadlock here--that one thread
>>> is depending on another thread in the same thread pool.  That's an inherent
>>> risk.  In our real process we open the file because we are performing file
>>> transformations in the IgfsTask, and then writing the results out to temp
>>> files in the cluster.  In the end, we collate all the temp files.  Is there
>>> a better approach, or a safe way to open a file and write to it from within
>>> a reduce?
>>>
>>> Thank you for your time!
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>>
>>>

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