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  1. Hadoop YARN
  2. YARN-8648

Container cgroups are leaked when using docker

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    • Bug
    • Status: Resolved
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • None
    • 3.2.0, 3.1.2
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    • Reviewed

    Description

      When you run with docker and enable cgroups for cpu, docker creates cgroups for all resources on the system, not just for cpu. For instance, if the yarn.nodemanager.linux-container-executor.cgroups.hierarchy=/hadoop-yarn, the nodemanager will create a cgroup for each container under /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/hadoop-yarn. In the docker case, we pass this path via the --cgroup-parent command line argument. Docker then creates a cgroup for the docker container under that, for instance: /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/hadoop-yarn/container_id/docker_container_id.

      When the container exits, docker cleans up the docker_container_id cgroup, and the nodemanager cleans up the container_id cgroup, All is good under /sys/fs/cgroup/hadoop-yarn.

      The problem is that docker also creates that same hierarchy under every resource under /sys/fs/cgroup. On the rhel7 system I am using, these are: blkio, cpuset, devices, freezer, hugetlb, memory, net_cls, net_prio, perf_event, and systemd. So for instance, docker creates /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/hadoop-yarn/container_id/docker_container_id, but it only cleans up the leaf cgroup docker_container_id. Nobody cleans up the container_id cgroups for these other resources. On one of our busy clusters, we found > 100,000 of these leaked cgroups.

      I found this in our 2.8-based version of hadoop, but I have been able to repro with current hadoop.

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        1. YARN-8648.001.patch
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        3. YARN-8648.003.patch
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        6. YARN-8648.006.patch
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