Hi Peter,
Yes, it's running on a different machine that's dedicated to RabbitMQ and we
are serializing the messages to disk -
exchange.getIn().setHeader("rabbitmq.DELIVERY_MODE", 2), though I'm not sure if
that header is actually needed for the broker to manage its own memory usage
(we set it for the purpose of retaining messages during broker restarts). Our
test broker is running on a puny little 4BG RAM VM and has had no issues with
running out of memory during the batch runs that killed the REST endpoints.
Regards,
Valdis
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Nagy (Jr) [mailto:pn...@gratex.com]
Sent: 17 October 2018 16:23
To: users@camel.apache.org
Subject: Re: throttling/backpressure on a route
Hi Valdis,
and your MQ is throttling how? Serializing it to disk? Or is it keeping it in
RAM but running on a different machine?
It seems to be a bit of an overkill :)
I just found ThrottlingInflightRoutePolicy, reading its description it seems to
be what I'm looking for. I will double-check tomorrow.
Thanks for all the tips so far.
Valdis Andersons <valdis.anders...@vhi.ie> writes:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Could you potentially use a message broker (RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ etc.)
> downstream from the aggregator that is causing you concern?
>
> Mongo -> Aggregator -> Message Broker Queue -> Consumer -> ... ->
> Mongo
>
> With the consumer counts it's quite easy to restrict throughput to the max
> your hardware can handle because consumers don't ask for a new message from a
> queue unless they've done processing the previous one.
>
> We had to do something similar to some of our RESTful endpoints when some
> nightly batches had the potential to fire in a huge amount of requests but
> the downstream processors couldn't handle it.
> It makes the route a bit more complex but we haven't had an out of memory
> error since (still working fast enough for us).
>
>
> Regards,
> Valdis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Nagy (Jr) [mailto:pn...@gratex.com]
> Sent: 17 October 2018 15:09
> To: users@camel.apache.org
> Subject: Re: throttling/backpressure on a route
>
> Hi Onder,
>
> Onder SEZGIN <ondersez...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>> I would suggest
>> 1- Take a look at throttle-eip. (Make sure you understand split,
>> aggregate and mongodb3 producer adocs around mongodb aggregation. Try
>> and see your case unless you can explain or create a unit test to
>> pinpoint your issue and also check mongodb3 components test case for
>> better examples.)
>
> I looked at the throttle EIP before, unfortunately this doesn't seem to solve
> the issue at hand. What if the producer is producing more than downstream can
> manage? Memory will be blasted. The throttler cannot know how is downstream
> doing. Downstream needs to tell upstream if it's OK to send more.
>
>> 2- All in memory. Depending on your route design, they are either in
>> memoryaggregationrepository or flowing through downstream enpoints / routes.
>
> Understood, thanks.
>
>> 3- For your example, take a look at split, aggreagte, mongodb3
>> aggregate functionality and possibly, throttle or delay eips.
>
> As explained above none of these seem to solve the issue. There needs
> to be communication between the producers. Having
>
> A -> B -> C -> D -> E -> F
>
> E needs to tell B "Wait" and when it catches up tell B "OK please send more".
> Otherwise things will flow downstream, filling up memory.
>
> Surely constraining memory usage is a solved problem? I'm just too new to
> understand what pattern(s) solve it.
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 10:18 AM Peter Nagy (Jr) <pn...@gratex.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Newbie question incoming.
>>>
>>> I have a route that looks like
>>>
>>> ...
>>> .setHeader("CamelMongoDbBatchSize", 128)
>>> .to("mongodb3:mymongo?...&operation=aggregate&outputType=MongoIterab
>>> l
>>> e")
>>> .split(constant(true))
>>> .streaming()
>>> ...
>>> .aggregate(constant(true), new GroupedBodyAggregationStrategy())
>>> .completionSize(128)
>>> .to("mongodb3:myothermongo?...&operation=bulkWrite")
>>>
>>> Pardon if there's some typos, I wrote this by hand since I'm using
>>> Camel from clojure and the clojure code looks a bit different.
>>>
>>> This works as expected, the aggregation is retrieved in batches and
>>> sent downstream one-by-one, being processed with various Processors
>>> and finally written in batches.
>>>
>>> I had a bug before where I had
>>>
>>> .aggregate().body().completionSize(128).completionTimeout(30000)
>>>
>>> which resulted in the aggregation waiting for the timeout. However
>>> in the meantime the mongo aggregation query finished processing everything.
>>>
>>> This raised some questions for me.
>>>
>>> 1. My process needs to be memory-friendly. Even after fixing the bug
>>> I need to be sure the aggregation query won't fill the RAM when
>>> downstream can't keep up. How can I apply some backpressure? How can
>>> I tell the route "don't process more until someone downstream says you
>>> can"? E.g.
>>> saying if there's more than N exchanges pending, wait.
>>>
>>> 2. Who was buffering the exchanges? I had ~2k entries flowing
>>> through, where did they end up queued?
>>>
>>> 3. Did I miss a doc page where these questions are explained? I
>>> spent a considerable amount of time searching for an answer thinking
>>> "This must be a common requirement, surely there's an example somewhere".
>>>
>>> --
>>> To reach a goal one has to enjoy the journey.
>>>
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To reach a goal one has to enjoy the journey.
