Hello all,

@John: The supervisor logs say nothing, except from the normal startup
messages.

@Abhishek: No, the worker starts properly. The task itself does not start.

Thanks,
Nick

2015-09-03 9:00 GMT-04:00 Abhishek Agarwal <[email protected]>:

> When you say that tasks do not start, do you mean that worker process
> itself is not starting?
>
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 5:20 PM, John Yost <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Nick,
>>
>> What do the nimbus and supervisor logs say? One or both may contain clues
>> as to why your workers are not starting up.
>>
>> --John
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 4:44 AM, Matthias J. Sax <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I am currently working with version 0.11.0-SNAPSHOT and cannot observe
>>> the behavior you describe. If I submit a sample topology with 1 spout
>>> (dop=1) and 1 bolt (dop=10) connected via shuffle grouping and have 12
>>> supervisor available (each with 12 worker slots), each of the 11
>>> executors is running on a single worker of a single supervisor (host).
>>>
>>> I am not idea why you observe a different behavior...
>>>
>>> -Matthias
>>>
>>> On 09/03/2015 12:20 AM, Nick R. Katsipoulakis wrote:
>>> > When I say co-locate, what I have seen in my experiments is the
>>> following:
>>> >
>>> > If the executor's number can be served by workers on one node, the
>>> > scheduler spawns all the executors in the workers of one node. I have
>>> > also seen that behavior in that the default scheduler tries to fill up
>>> > one node before provisioning an additional one for the topology.
>>> >
>>> > Going back to your following sentence "and the executors should be
>>> > evenly distributed over all available workers." I have to say that I do
>>> > not see that often in my experiments. Actually, I often come across
>>> with
>>> > workers handling 2 - 3 executors/tasks, and other doing nothing. Am I
>>> > missing something? Is it just a coincidence that happened in my
>>> experiments?
>>> >
>>> > Thank you,
>>> > Nick
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > 2015-09-02 17:38 GMT-04:00 Matthias J. Sax <[email protected]
>>> > <mailto:[email protected]>>:
>>> >
>>> >     I agree. The load is not high.
>>> >
>>> >     About higher latencies. How many ackers did you configure? As a
>>> rule of
>>> >     thumb there should be one acker per executor. If you have less
>>> ackers,
>>> >     and an increasing number of executors, this might cause the
>>> increased
>>> >     latency as the ackers could become a bottleneck.
>>> >
>>> >     What do you mean by "trying to co-locate tasks and executors as
>>> much as
>>> >     possible"? Tasks a logical units of works that are processed by
>>> >     executors (which are threads). Furthermore (as far as I know), the
>>> >     default scheduler does a evenly distributed assignment for tasks
>>> and
>>> >     executor to the available workers. In you case, as you set the
>>> number of
>>> >     task equal to the number of executors, each executors processes a
>>> single
>>> >     task, and the executors should be evenly distributed over all
>>> available
>>> >     workers.
>>> >
>>> >     However, you are right: intra-worker channels are "cheaper" than
>>> >     inter-worker channels. In order to exploit this, you should use
>>> >     shuffle-or-local grouping instead of shuffle. The disadvantage of
>>> >     shuffle-or-local might be missing load-balancing. Shuffle always
>>> ensures
>>> >     good load balancing.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >     -Matthias
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >     On 09/02/2015 10:31 PM, Nick R. Katsipoulakis wrote:
>>> >     > Well, my input load is 4 streams at 4000 tuples per second, and
>>> each
>>> >     > tuple is about 128 bytes long. Therefore, I do not think my load
>>> is too
>>> >     > much for my hardware.
>>> >     >
>>> >     > No, I am running only this topology in my cluster.
>>> >     >
>>> >     > For some reason, when I set the task to executor ratio to 1, my
>>> topology
>>> >     > does not hang at all. The strange thing now is that I see higher
>>> latency
>>> >     > with more executors and I am trying to figure this out. Also, I
>>> see that
>>> >     > the default scheduler is trying to co-locate tasks and executors
>>> as much
>>> >     > as possible. Is this true? If yes, is it because the intra-worker
>>> >     > latencies are much lower than the inter-worker latencies?
>>> >     >
>>> >     > Thanks,
>>> >     > Nick
>>> >     >
>>> >     > 2015-09-02 16:27 GMT-04:00 Matthias J. Sax <[email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>
>>> >     > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>>:
>>> >     >
>>> >     >     So (for each node) you have 4 cores available for 1
>>> supervisor JVM, 2
>>> >     >     worker JVMs that execute up to 5 thread each (if 40
>>> executors are
>>> >     >     distributed evenly over all workers. Thus, about 12 threads
>>> for 4 cores.
>>> >     >     Or course, Storm starts a few more threads within each
>>> >     >     worker/supervisor.
>>> >     >
>>> >     >     If your load is not huge, this might be sufficient. However,
>>> having high
>>> >     >     data rate, it might be problematic.
>>> >     >
>>> >     >     One more question: do you run a single topology in your
>>> cluster or
>>> >     >     multiple? Storm isolates topologies for fault-tolerance
>>> reasons. Thus, a
>>> >     >     single worker cannot process executors from different
>>> topologies. If you
>>> >     >     run out of workers, a topology might not start up completely.
>>> >     >
>>> >     >     -Matthias
>>> >     >
>>> >     >
>>> >     >
>>> >     >     On 09/02/2015 09:54 PM, Nick R. Katsipoulakis wrote:
>>> >     >     > Hello Matthias and thank you for your reply. See my
>>> answers below:
>>> >     >     >
>>> >     >     > - I have a 4 supervisor nodes in my AWS cluster of
>>> m4.xlarge instances
>>> >     >     > (4 cores per node). On top of that I have 3 more nodes for
>>> zookeeper and
>>> >     >     > nimbus.
>>> >     >     > - 2 worker nodes per supervisor node
>>> >     >     > - The task number for each bolt ranges from 1 to 4 and I
>>> use 1:1 task to
>>> >     >     > executor assignment.
>>> >     >     > - The number of executors in total for the topology ranges
>>> from 14 to 41
>>> >     >     >
>>> >     >     > Thanks,
>>> >     >     > Nick
>>> >     >     >
>>> >     >     > 2015-09-02 15:42 GMT-04:00 Matthias J. Sax <
>>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]
>>> >     <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> >     >     > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>>> >     <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>>>:
>>> >     >     >
>>> >     >     >     Without any exception/error message it is hard to tell.
>>> >     >     >
>>> >     >     >     What is your cluster setup
>>> >     >     >       - Hardware, ie, number of cores per node?
>>> >     >     >       - How many node/supervisor are available?
>>> >     >     >       - Configured number of workers for the topology?
>>> >     >     >       - What is the number of task for each spout/bolt?
>>> >     >     >       - What is the number of executors for each
>>> spout/bolt?
>>> >     >     >
>>> >     >     >     -Matthias
>>> >     >     >
>>> >     >     >     On 09/02/2015 08:02 PM, Nick R. Katsipoulakis wrote:
>>> >     >     >     > Hello all,
>>> >     >     >     >
>>> >     >     >     > I am working on a project in which I submit a
>>> topology
>>> >     to my
>>> >     >     Storm
>>> >     >     >     > cluster, but for some reason, some of my tasks do not
>>> >     start
>>> >     >     executing.
>>> >     >     >     >
>>> >     >     >     > I can see that the above is happening because every
>>> >     bolt I have
>>> >     >     >     needs to
>>> >     >     >     > connect to an external server and do a registration
>>> to a
>>> >     >     service.
>>> >     >     >     > However, some of the bolts do not seem to connect.
>>> >     >     >     >
>>> >     >     >     > I have to say that the number of tasks I have is
>>> >     larger than the
>>> >     >     >     number
>>> >     >     >     > of workers of my cluster. Also, I check my worker log
>>> >     files,
>>> >     >     and I see
>>> >     >     >     > that the workers that do not register, are also not
>>> >     writing some
>>> >     >     >     > initialization messages I have them print in the
>>> >     beginning.
>>> >     >     >     >
>>> >     >     >     > Any idea why this is happening? Can it be because my
>>> >     >     resources are not
>>> >     >     >     > enough to start off all of the tasks?
>>> >     >     >     >
>>> >     >     >     > Thank you,
>>> >     >     >     > Nick
>>> >     >     >
>>> >     >     >
>>> >     >     >
>>> >     >     >
>>> >     >     > --
>>> >     >     > Nikolaos Romanos Katsipoulakis,
>>> >     >     > University of Pittsburgh, PhD candidate
>>> >     >
>>> >     >
>>> >     >
>>> >     >
>>> >     > --
>>> >     > Nikolaos Romanos Katsipoulakis,
>>> >     > University of Pittsburgh, PhD candidate
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Nikolaos Romanos Katsipoulakis,
>>> > University of Pittsburgh, PhD candidate
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Abhishek Agarwal
>
>


-- 
Nikolaos Romanos Katsipoulakis,
University of Pittsburgh, PhD candidate

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