[SPARK-22793] Memory leak in Spark Thrift Server

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.2, 2.2.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Assignee: zuotingbing
• Reporter: zuotingbing
• Created: 15/Dec/17 07:16
• Updated: 17/Jan/18 13:13
• Resolved: 06/Jan/18 10:11

Description

1. Start HiveThriftServer2.
2. Connect to thriftserver through beeline.
3. Close the beeline.
4. repeat step2 and step 3 for several times, which caused the leak of Memory.

we found there are many directories never be dropped under the path

hive.exec.local.scratchdir

and

hive.exec.scratchdir

, as we know the scratchdir has been added to deleteOnExit when it be created. So it means that the cache size of FileSystem deleteOnExit will keep increasing until JVM terminated.

In addition, we use

jmap -histo:live [PID]

to printout the size of objects in HiveThriftServer2 Process, we can find the object "org.apache.spark.sql.hive.client.HiveClientImpl" and "org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.session.SessionState" keep increasing even though we closed all the beeline connections, which caused the leak of Memory.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: SPARK-15401 Spark Thrift server creates empty directories in tmp directory on the driver
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #19989 (zuotingbing)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #20029 (zuotingbing)