Re: Garbage collection concerns with Task Manager memory

2017-10-18 Thread Kien Truong
Hi, Yes, GC is still a major concern. Even G1 has a hard time dealing with >64GB heap in our experience. To mitigate, we run multiple TMs with smaller heap per machine, and use RocksDBStateBackend. Best regards, Kien On 10/18/2017 4:40 PM, Marchant, Hayden wrote: I read in the Flink docu

Garbage collection concerns with Task Manager memory

2017-10-18 Thread Marchant, Hayden
I read in the Flink documentation that the TaskManager runs all tasks within its own JVM, and that the recommendation is to set the taskmanager.heap.mb to be as much as is available on the server. I have a very large server with 192GB so thinking of giving most of it to the Task Manager. I reca