[FLINK-25027] Allow GC of a finished job's JobMaster before the slot timeout is reached

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.14.0, 1.12.5, 1.13.3
• Fix Version/s: 1.20.0
• Component/s: Runtime / Coordination
• Assignee: Fang Yong
• Reporter: Nico Kruber
• Created: 23/Nov/21 19:41
• Updated: 11/Mar/24 12:44

Description

In a session cluster, after a (batch) job is finished, the JobMaster seems to stick around for another couple of minutes before being eligible for garbage collection.

Looking into a heap dump, it seems to be tied to a PhysicalSlotRequestBulkCheckerImpl which is enqueued in the underlying Akka executor (and keeps the JM from being GC’d). Per default the action is scheduled for slot.request.timeout that defaults to 5 min (thanks trohrmann for helping out here)

With this setting, you will have to account for enough metaspace to cover 5 minutes of time which may span a couple of jobs, needlessly!

The problem seems to be that Flink is using the main thread executor for the scheduling that uses the ActorSystem's scheduler and the future task scheduled with Akka can (probably) not be easily cancelled.
One idea could be to use a dedicated thread pool per JM, that we shut down when the JM terminates. That way we would not keep the JM from being GC’d.

(The concrete example we investigated was a DataSet job)

Issue Links

• is a child of: FLINK-25318 Improvement of scheduler and execution for Flink OLAP

Sub-Tasks

• Add a scheduled thread pool in Endpoint and close it when the endpoint is stopped: Closed
• Move resource timeout checkers in JM from akka executors to the dedicated thread pool: Open
• Move heartbeats from akka to the dedicated thread pool in JM: Open