[ACCUMULO-4483] NegativeArraySizeException from scan thread right after minor compaction

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.1, 2.0.0
• Component/s: tserver
• Labels: hackathon2016

Environment

Accumulo 1.8.0
Java 1.8.0_72

• Assignee: Dave Marion
• Reporter: Dave Marion
• Created: 03/Oct/16 20:47
• Updated: 16/Feb/17 20:08
• Resolved: 11/Oct/16 23:34

Description

I have been getting NegativeArraySizeExceptions after upgrading to Accumulo 1.8.0. I have tracked it down to 2 or more concurrent scans on a tablet that has just undergone minor compaction. The minor compaction thread writes the in-memory map to a local temporary rfile and tries to switch the current iterators to use it instead of the native map. The iterator code in the scan thread may also switch itself to use the local temporary rfile it if notices it before the minor compaction threads performs the switch. This all works up to this point. Shortly after the switch one of the iterator threads will get a NegativeArraySizeException from:
SourceSwitchingIterator.seek() -> SourceSwitchingIterator.readNext() -> MemKeyConversionIterator.seek() -> MemKeyConversionIterator.getTopKeyValue() ->MemValue.decode(). I added a bunch of logging to find that the length of the byte array passed to MemValue.decode is zero.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #164