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Joseph Lynch commented on CASSANDRA-14358:
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Good news, Linux has support for a [socket
option|https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/62889/] since 2.6.37 called
{{TCP_USER_TIMEOUT}} which implements
[RFC5482|https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5482] and does exactly what we want
(ensures HA on a kept alive TCP connection). Netty also supports [setting this
option|https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/4174] for epoll sockets as of
4.0.31, so we can set that on our internode TCP connections and get really high
availability networking without requiring OS tuning on Linux. The {{man tcp}}
entry is educational:
{noformat}
TCP_USER_TIMEOUT (since Linux 2.6.37)
This option takes an unsigned int as an argument. When the
value is greater than 0, it specifies the maximum amount of time in
milliseconds that trans‐
mitted data may remain unacknowledged before TCP will forcibly
close the corresponding connection and return ETIMEDOUT to the application. If
the option
value is specified as 0, TCP will to use the system default.
Increasing user timeouts allows a TCP connection to survive
extended periods without end-to-end connectivity. Decreasing user timeouts
allows applica‐
tions to "fail fast", if so desired. Otherwise, failure may take
up to 20 minutes with the current system defaults in a normal WAN environment.
This option can be set during any state of a TCP connection, but
is effective only during the synchronized states of a connection
(ESTABLISHED, FIN-
WAIT-1, FIN-WAIT-2, CLOSE-WAIT, CLOSING, and LAST-ACK).
Moreover, when used with the TCP keepalive (SO_KEEPALIVE) option,
TCP_USER_TIMEOUT will override
keepalive to determine when to close a connection due to
keepalive failure.
The option has no effect on when TCP retransmits a packet, nor
when a keepalive probe is sent.
This option, like many others, will be inherited by the socket
returned by accept(2), if it was set on the listening socket.
Further details on the user timeout feature can be found in RFC
793 and RFC 5482 ("TCP User Timeout Option").
{noformat}
I've started working on a [trunk
patch|https://github.com/jolynch/cassandra/tree/CASSANDRA-14358] which will fix
this on any Linux based deployment via the {{TCP_USER_TIMEOUT}} socket option.
I've been testing with the reproduction steps I listed above using iptables and
without my patch Cassandra waits until the OS kills the connection in ~15-20
minutes, and with my patch it kills it after ~10s.
> OutboundTcpConnection can hang for many minutes when nodes restart
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>
> Key: CASSANDRA-14358
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-14358
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Streaming and Messaging
> Environment: Cassandra 2.1.19 (also reproduced on 3.0.15), running
> with {{internode_encryption: all}} and the EC2 multi region snitch on Linux
> 4.13 within the same AWS region. Smallest cluster I've seen the problem on is
> 12 nodes, reproduces more reliably on 40+ and 300 node clusters consistently
> reproduce on at least one node in the cluster.
> So all the connections are SSL and we're connecting on the internal ip
> addresses (not the public endpoint ones).
> Potentially relevant sysctls:
> {noformat}
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syn_retries = 2
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_synack_retries = 5
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time = 7200
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_probes = 9
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_intvl = 75
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_retries2 = 15
> {noformat}
> Reporter: Joseph Lynch
> Assignee: Joseph Lynch
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: 10 Minute Partition.pdf
>
>
> I've been trying to debug nodes not being able to see each other during
> longer (~5 minute+) Cassandra restarts in 3.0.x and 2.1.x which can
> contribute to {{UnavailableExceptions}} during rolling restarts of 3.0.x and
> 2.1.x clusters for us. I think I finally have a lead. It appears that prior
> to trunk (with the awesome Netty refactor) we do not set socket connect
> timeouts on SSL connections (in 2.1.x, 3.0.x, or 3.11.x) nor do we set
> {{SO_TIMEOUT}} as far as I can tell on outbound connections either. I believe
> that this means that we could potentially block forever on {{connect}} or
> {{recv}} syscalls, and we could block forever on the SSL Handshake as well. I
> think that the OS will protect us somewhat (and that may be what's causing
> the eventual timeout) but I think that given the right network conditions our
> {{OutboundTCPConnection}} threads can just be stuck never making any progress
> until the OS intervenes.
> I have attached some logs of such a network partition during a rolling
> restart where an old node in the cluster has a completely foobarred
> {{OutboundTcpConnection}} for ~10 minutes before finally getting a
> {{java.net.SocketException: Connection timed out (Write failed)}} and
> immediately successfully reconnecting. I conclude that the old node is the
> problem because the new node (the one that restarted) is sending ECHOs to the
> old node, and the old node is sending ECHOs and REQUEST_RESPONSES to the new
> node's ECHOs, but the new node is never getting the ECHO's. This appears, to
> me, to indicate that the old node's {{OutboundTcpConnection}} thread is just
> stuck and can't make any forward progress. By the time we could notice this
> and slap TRACE logging on, the only thing we see is ~10 minutes later a
> {{SocketException}} inside {{writeConnected}}'s flush and an immediate
> recovery. It is interesting to me that the exception happens in
> {{writeConnected}} and it's a _connection timeout_ (and since we see {{Write
> failure}} I believe that this can't be a connection reset), because my
> understanding is that we should have a fully handshaked SSL connection at
> that point in the code.
> Current theory:
> # "New" node restarts, "Old" node calls
> [newSocket|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/6f30677b28dcbf82bcd0a291f3294ddf87dafaac/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/net/OutboundTcpConnection.java#L433]
> # Old node starts [creating a
> new|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/6f30677b28dcbf82bcd0a291f3294ddf87dafaac/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/net/OutboundTcpConnectionPool.java#L141]
> SSL socket
> # SSLSocket calls
> [createSocket|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/cassandra-3.11/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/security/SSLFactory.java#L98],
> which conveniently calls connect with a default timeout of "forever". We
> could hang here forever until the OS kills us.
> # If we continue, we get to
> [writeConnected|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/6f30677b28dcbf82bcd0a291f3294ddf87dafaac/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/net/OutboundTcpConnection.java#L263]
> which eventually calls
> [flush|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/6f30677b28dcbf82bcd0a291f3294ddf87dafaac/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/net/OutboundTcpConnection.java#L341]
> on the output stream and also can hang forever. I think the probability is
> especially high when a node is restarting and is overwhelmed with SSL
> handshakes and such.
> I don't fully understand the attached traceback as it appears we are getting
> a {{Connection Timeout}} from a {{send}} failure (my understanding is you can
> only get a connection timeout prior to a send), but I think it's reasonable
> that we have a timeout configuration issue. I'd like to try to make Cassandra
> robust to networking issues like this via maybe:
> # Change the {{SSLSocket}} {{getSocket}} methods to provide connection
> timeouts of 2s (equivalent to trunk's
> [timeout|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/11496039fb18bb45407246602e31740c56d28157/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/net/async/NettyFactory.java#L329])
> # Appropriately set recv timeouts via {{SO_TIMEOUT}}, maybe something like 2
> minutes (in old versions via
> [setSoTimeout|https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/net/Socket.html#setSoTimeout-int-],
> in trunk via
> [SO_TIMEOUT|http://netty.io/4.0/api/io/netty/channel/ChannelOption.html#SO_TIMEOUT]
> # Since we can't set send timeouts afaik (thanks java) maybe we can have
> some kind of watchdog that ensures OutboundTcpConnection is making progress
> in its queue and if it doesn't make any progress for ~30s-1m, forces a
> disconnect.
> If anyone has insight or suggestions, I'd be grateful. I am going to rule out
> if this is keepalive duration by setting tcp_keepalive_probes to like 1 and
> maybe tcp_retries2 to like 8 get more information about the state of the tcp
> connections the next time this happens. It's a very rare bug and when it does
> happen I only have 10 minutes to jump on the nodes and fix it before it fixes
> itself so I'll do my best.
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