[THRIFT-3241] fatal error: runtime: cannot map pages in arena address space

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.2
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.3
• Component/s: Go - Library
• Assignee: Jens Geyer
• Reporter: Jens Geyer
• Created: 13/Jul/15 09:44
• Updated: 31/Jul/15 21:41
• Resolved: 26/Jul/15 00:31

Description

Passing huge strings to a Go server may produce a fatal exit with an OOM error. Main problem is that OOM errors are not recoverable by design in Go.

fatal error: runtime: cannot map pages in arena address space

runtime stack:
runtime.SysMap(0x3e7e0000, 0xb0d0000, 0xcfe01, 0x8172d8)
        c:/go/src/runtime/mem_windows.c:131 +0x7f
runtime.MHeap_SysAlloc(0x81a0c0, 0xb0d0000, 0xfffffffe)
        c:/go/src/runtime/malloc.c:284 +0xf1
runtime.MHeap_Alloc(0x81a0c0, 0x5861, 0x0, 0x12360001, 0x12368640)
        c:/go/src/runtime/mheap.c:240 +0x66

goroutine 390 [running]:
runtime.switchtoM()
        c:/go/src/runtime/asm_386.s:208 fp=0x1241fb70 sp=0x1241fb6c
runtime.mallocgc(0xb0c000b, 0x0, 0x3, 0x12356960)
        c:/go/src/runtime/malloc.go:199 +0x7d3 fp=0x1241fbc8 sp=0x1241fb70
runtime.rawstring(0xb0c000b, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0)
        c:/go/src/runtime/string.go:195 +0x88 fp=0x1241fbe0 sp=0x1241fbc8
runtime.slicebytetostring(0x1dbcc000, 0xb0c000b, 0xb0c000b, 0x0, 0x0)
        c:/go/src/runtime/string.go:69 +0x38 fp=0x1241fc28 sp=0x1241fbe0
thrift.(*TBinaryProtocol).readStringBody(0x12418c40, 0xb0c000b, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0)
        C:/Test/src/thrift/binary_protocol.go:483 +0x150 fp=0x1241fc70 sp=0x1241fc28
thrift.(*TBinaryProtocol).ReadString(0x12418c40, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0)
        C:/Test/src/thrift/binary_protocol.go:437 +0xc6 fp=0x1241fc94 sp=0x1241fc70