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  1. Cassandra
  2. CASSANDRA-13204

Thread Leak in OutboundTcpConnection

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      We found threads leaking from OutboundTcpConnection to machines which are not part of the cluster and still in Gossip for some reason. There are two issues here, this JIRA will cover the second one which is most important.

      1) First issue is that Gossip has information about machines not in the ring which has been replaced out. It causes Cassandra to connect to those machines but due to internode auth, it wont be able to connect to them at the socket level.

      2) Second issue is a race between creating a connection and closing a connections which is triggered by the gossip bug explained above. Let me try to explain it using the code

      In OutboundTcpConnection, we are calling closeSocket(true) which will set isStopped=true and also put a close sentinel into the queue to exit the thread. On the ack connection, Gossip tries to send a message which calls connect() which will block for 10 seconds which is RPC timeout. The reason we will block is because Cassandra might not be running there or internode auth will not let it connect. During this 10 seconds, if Gossip calls closeSocket, it will put close sentinel into the queue. When we return from the connect method after 10 seconds, we will clear the backlog queue causing this thread to leak.

      Proofs from the heap dump of the affected machine which is leaking threads
      1. Only ack connection is leaking and not the command connection which is not used by Gossip.
      2. We see thread blocked on the backlog queue, isStopped=true and backlog queue is empty. This is happening on the threads which have already leaked.
      3. A running thread was blocked on the connect waiting for timeout(10 seconds) and we see backlog queue to contain the close sentinel. Once the connect will return false, we will clear the backlog and this thread will have leaked.

      Interesting bits from j stack
      1282 number of threads for "MessagingService-Outgoing-/<IP-Address>"

      Thread which is about to leak:
      "MessagingService-Outgoing-/<IP Address>"
      java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE
      at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect0(Native Method)
      at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect(Net.java:454)
      at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect(Net.java:446)
      at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.connect(SocketChannelImpl.java:648)

      • locked <> (a java.lang.Object)
      • locked <> (a java.lang.Object)
      • locked <> (a java.lang.Object)
        at org.apache.cassandra.net.OutboundTcpConnectionPool.newSocket(OutboundTcpConnectionPool.java:137)
        at org.apache.cassandra.net.OutboundTcpConnectionPool.newSocket(OutboundTcpConnectionPool.java:119)
        at org.apache.cassandra.net.OutboundTcpConnection.connect(OutboundTcpConnection.java:381)
        at org.apache.cassandra.net.OutboundTcpConnection.run(OutboundTcpConnection.java:217)

      Thread already leaked:
      "MessagingService-Outgoing-/<IP Address>"
      java.lang.Thread.State: WAITING (parking)
      at sun.misc.Unsafe.park(Native Method)

      • parking to wait for <> (a java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer$ConditionObject)
        at java.util.concurrent.locks.LockSupport.park(LockSupport.java:175)
        at java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer$ConditionObject.await(AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.java:2039)
        at java.util.concurrent.LinkedBlockingQueue.take(LinkedBlockingQueue.java:442)
        at org.apache.cassandra.utils.CoalescingStrategies$DisabledCoalescingStrategy.coalesceInternal(CoalescingStrategies.java:482)
        at org.apache.cassandra.utils.CoalescingStrategies$CoalescingStrategy.coalesce(CoalescingStrategies.java:213)
        at org.apache.cassandra.net.OutboundTcpConnection.run(OutboundTcpConnection.java:190)

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            jasobrown Jason Brown
            kohlisankalp Sankalp Kohli
            Jason Brown
            Ariel Weisberg
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