I would try that approach first On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Stephan Ewen <se...@apache.org> wrote:
> Another idea: The bug is fixed in the Zookeeper Client that Kafka uses, so > if we can bump the transitive dependency, that might fix it... > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Stephan Ewen <se...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Hey! > > > > The problem here is that there is no such thing as proper thread killing > > in Java (at least it makes everything unstable if you do). Threads need > to > > exit cooperatively. > > > > The Kafka Function calls simply are uninterruptibly stuck and never > return > > (pretty bad bug in their Zookeeper Client). As far as I know one cannot > > clean this up properly unless one kills the process. > > > > We could try and work around this by running the Zookeeper commit in a > > dedicated lightweight thread that shares no resources and thus does not > > make the system unstable if stopped (against better advise ;-) ) > > > > Stephan > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Ufuk Celebi <u...@apache.org> wrote: > > > >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-824 > >> > >> This has been fixed for Kafka’s 0.9.0 version. > >> > >> We should investigate why the job gets stuck though. Do you have a stack > >> trace or any logs available? > >> > >> – Ufuk > >> > >> > On 17 Nov 2015, at 09:24, Gyula Fóra <gyf...@apache.org> wrote: > >> > > >> > Hey guys, > >> > > >> > I ran into some issue with the kafka consumers. > >> > > >> > I am reading from more than 50 topics with parallelism 1, and while > >> running > >> > the job I got the following exception during the checkpoint > notification > >> > (offset committing): > >> > > >> > java.lang.RuntimeException: Error while confirming checkpoint > >> > at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task$2.run(Task.java:935) > >> > at > >> java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) > >> > at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) > >> > at > >> > > >> > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) > >> > at > >> > > >> > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) > >> > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) > >> > Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException > >> > at > >> > > >> > org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkConnection.writeDataReturnStat(ZkConnection.java:115) > >> > at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient$10.call(ZkClient.java:817) > >> > at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.retryUntilConnected(ZkClient.java:675) > >> > at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.writeDataReturnStat(ZkClient.java:813) > >> > at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.writeData(ZkClient.java:808) > >> > at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.writeData(ZkClient.java:777) > >> > at kafka.utils.ZkUtils$.updatePersistentPath(ZkUtils.scala:332) > >> > at kafka.utils.ZkUtils.updatePersistentPath(ZkUtils.scala) > >> > at > >> > > >> > org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.internals.ZookeeperOffsetHandler.setOffsetInZooKeeper(ZookeeperOffsetHandler.java:112) > >> > at > >> > > >> > org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.internals.ZookeeperOffsetHandler.commit(ZookeeperOffsetHandler.java:80) > >> > at > >> > > >> > org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.FlinkKafkaConsumer.notifyCheckpointComplete(FlinkKafkaConsumer.java:542) > >> > at > >> > > >> > org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.AbstractUdfStreamOperator.notifyOfCompletedCheckpoint(AbstractUdfStreamOperator.java:176) > >> > at > >> > > >> > org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.notifyCheckpointComplete(StreamTask.java:478) > >> > at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task$2.run(Task.java:931) > >> > ... 5 more > >> > > >> > This happened at the same time on multiple kafka consumers. Could this > >> be > >> > some Zookeeper related issue? Maybe we should be aware of this. > >> > > >> > Another problem is that subsequently the whole pipeline got stuck at > the > >> > sources while canceling so the job could never restart. Maybe it would > >> be > >> > worth killing the whole thing and restart in these situations? > >> > > >> > Thanks, > >> > Gyula > >> > >> > > >
