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Jun Rao commented on KAFKA-2096:
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[~allenxwang], that seems to be a good fix. Do you want to submit a patch?
> Enable keepalive socket option for broker to prevent socket leak
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> Key: KAFKA-2096
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2096
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: network
> Affects Versions: 0.8.2.1
> Reporter: Allen Wang
> Assignee: Jun Rao
> Priority: Critical
>
> We run a Kafka 0.8.2.1 cluster in AWS with large number of producers (>
> 10000). Also the number of producer instances scale up and down significantly
> on a daily basis.
> The issue we found is that after 10 days, the open file descriptor count will
> approach the limit of 32K. An investigation of these open file descriptors
> shows that a significant portion of these are from client instances that are
> terminated during scaling down. Somehow they still show as "ESTABLISHED" in
> netstat. We suspect that the AWS firewall between the client and broker
> causes this issue.
> We attempted to use "keepalive" socket option to reduce this socket leak on
> broker and it appears to be working. Specifically, we added this line to
> kafka.network.Acceptor.accept():
> socketChannel.socket().setKeepAlive(true)
> It is confirmed during our experiment of this change that entries in netstat
> where the client instance is terminated were probed as configured in
> operating system. After configured number of probes, the OS determined that
> the peer is no longer alive and the entry is removed, possibly after an error
> in Kafka to read from the channel and closing the channel. Also, our
> experiment shows that after a few days, the instance was able to keep a
> stable low point of open file descriptor count, compared with other instances
> where the low point keeps increasing day to day.
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