[HBASE-22072] High read/write intensive regions may cause long crash recovery

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.2.0, 2.3.0, 2.0.6, 2.1.5
• Component/s: Performance, Recovery
• Labels: compaction
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: ramkrishna.s.vasudevan
• Reporter: Pavel
• Created: 20/Mar/19 09:05
• Updated: 08/Sep/19 03:21
• Resolved: 09/May/19 10:05

Description

Compaction of high read loaded region may leave compacted files undeleted because of existing scan references:

INFO org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HStore - Can't archive compacted file hdfs://hdfs-ha/hbase... because of either isCompactedAway=true or file has reference, isReferencedInReads=true, refCount=1, skipping for now

If region is either high write loaded this happens quite often and region may have few storefiles and tons of undeleted compacted hdfs files.

Region keeps all that files (in my case thousands) untill graceful region closing procedure, which ignores existing references and drop obsolete files. It works fine unless consuming some extra hdfs space, but only in case of normal region closing. If region server crashes than new region server, responsible for that overfiling region, reads hdfs folder and try to deal with all undeleted files, producing tons of storefiles, compaction tasks and consuming abnormal amount of memory, wich may lead to OutOfMemory Exception and further region servers crash. This stops writing to region because number of storefiles reach hbase.hstore.blockingStoreFiles limit, forces high GC duty and may take hours to compact all files into working set of files.

Workaround is a periodically check hdfs folders files count and force region assign for ones with too many files.

It could be nice if regionserver had a setting similar to hbase.hstore.blockingStoreFiles and invoke attempt to drop undeleted compacted files if number of files reaches this setting.

Issue Links

• is related to: HBASE-20373 Check and forward port HBASE-20322 (RS crash due to CME in StoreScanner)
• is related to: HBASE-20322 CME in StoreScanner causes region server crash
• relates to: HBASE-22929 MemStoreLAB ChunkCreator may memory leak
• relates to: HBASE-22936 Close memStoreScanners in StoreScanner#updateReaders else memory leak
• relates to: HBASE-22450 Port TestStoreScannerClosure from HBASE-22072
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #214