Details
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Bug
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Status: Closed
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Blocker
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Resolution: Fixed
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0.16.0
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Description
We have a cluster running the same applications again and again with a high turnover of files.
The performance of these applications seem to be correlated to the lifetime of the namenode:
After starting the namenode, the applications need increasingly more time to complete, with about 50% more time after 1 week.
During that time the namenode average cpu usage increases from typically 10% to 30%, memory usage nearly doubles (although the average amount of data on dfs stays the same), and the average load factor increases by a factor of 2-3 (although not significantly high, <2).
When looking at the namenode and datanode logs, I see a lot of asks to delete blocks coming from the namenode for blocks not in the blockmap of the datanodes, repeatedly for the same blocks.
When I counted the number of blocks asked by the namenode to be deleted, I noticed a noticeable increase with the lifetime of the namenode (a factor of 2-3 after 1 week).
This makes me wonder whether the namenode does not purge the list of invalid blocks from non-existing blocks.
But independently, the namenode has a degradation issue.