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Wei Zheng commented on HIVE-13249: ---------------------------------- The Exception being caught from startHouseKeeperService is thrown by the class instantiation: {code} openTxnsCounter = (HouseKeeperService)c.newInstance(); {code} But I think I can move this line into the try block, and make this method not throw exception, so that we can best effort. I don't think we want to fail all txns just because we cannot start the counter service. > Hard upper bound on number of open transactions > ----------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-13249 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-13249 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Transactions > Affects Versions: 2.0.0 > Reporter: Wei Zheng > Assignee: Wei Zheng > Attachments: HIVE-13249.1.patch, HIVE-13249.2.patch, > HIVE-13249.3.patch, HIVE-13249.4.patch, HIVE-13249.5.patch, > HIVE-13249.6.patch, HIVE-13249.7.patch, HIVE-13249.8.patch, HIVE-13249.9.patch > > > We need to have a safeguard by adding an upper bound for open transactions to > avoid huge number of open-transaction requests, usually due to improper > configuration of clients such as Storm. > Once that limit is reached, clients will start failing. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)