[HADOOP-4552] Deadlock in RPC Server

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.16.3
• Fix Version/s: 0.19.0
• Component/s: ipc
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Raghu Angadi
• Reporter: Raghu Angadi
• Created: 30/Oct/08 19:14
• Updated: 20/Nov/08 23:38
• Resolved: 11/Nov/08 19:34

Description

RPC server could get into a deadlock especially when clients or server are network starved. This is a deadlock between RPC responder thread trying to check if there are any connection to be purged and RPC handler trying to queue a response to be written by the responder.

This was first observed this thread.