[ASTERIXDB-1732] Sporadic deadlock in LogManager

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: *DB - AsterixDB, TX - Transactions
• Labels: sporadic-error
• Assignee: Abdullah Alamoudi
• Reporter: Till Westmann
• Created: 07/Nov/16 19:02
• Updated: 08/Mar/18 00:23
• Resolved: 07/Nov/16 19:07

Description

The LogBuffer has a race condition if the log buffer capacity is exceeded. If this happens, we can lose log pages for large records. In that case the log is corrupted and it leads to a deadlock when the LogManager switches to a new log file.