Hi, We are seeing a similar behaviour for large sliding windows. Let me put some details here and see if they match up enough with Chen’s:
Technical specs: - Flink 1.2.1 on YARN - RocksDB backend, on HDFS. I’ve set the backend to PredefinedOptions.SPINNING_DISK_OPTIMIZED_HIGH_MEM since our Hadoop cluster runs on spinning disks but that doesn’t seem to help Pipeline: - Read from Kafka, extract ids - KeyBy id, count occurences of each id using a fold. The window size of this operator is 10 minutes with a slide of 1 minute - KeyBy id (again), compute mean, standard deviation using a fold. The window size of this operator is 4 hours with a slide of 1 minute. - Post-process data, sink. What I observe is: - With a heap-based backend, the job runs really quick (couple of minutes to process 7 days of Kafka data) but eventually goes OOM with a GC overhead exceeded error. - With the RocksDB backend, checkpoints get stuck most of the time, and the “count occurences” step gets a lot of back pressure from the next operator (on the large window) o In those cases the checkpoint does succeed, the state for the large window is around 500-700MB, others states are within the KBs. o Also in those cases, all time seems to be spent in the ‘alignment’ phase for a single subtask of the count operator, with the other operators aligning within milliseconds. The checkpoint duration itself is no more than 2seconds even for the larger states. At this point, I’m a bit at a loss to figure out what’s going on. My best guess is it has to do with the state access to the RocksDBFoldingState, but why this so slow is beyond me. Hope this info helps in figuring out what is going on, and hopefully it is actually related to Chen’s case :) Thanks, Carst From: Stefan Richter <s.rich...@data-artisans.com> Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2017 at 21:35 To: "user@flink.apache.org" <user@flink.apache.org> Subject: Re: large sliding window perf question Hi, Which state backend and Flink version are you using? There was a problem with large merging states on RocksDB, caused by some inefficiencies in the merge operator of RocksDB. We provide a custom patch for this with all newer versions of Flink. Best, Stefan Am 23.05.2017 um 21:24 schrieb Chen Qin <qinnc...@gmail.com<mailto:qinnc...@gmail.com>>: Hi there, I have seen some weird perf issue while running event time based job with large sliding window (24 hours offset every 10s) pipeline looks simple, tail kafka topic and assign timestamp and watermark, forward to large sliding window (30days) and fire every 10 seconds and print out. what I have seen first hand was checkpointing stuck, took longer than timeout despite traffic volume is low ~300 TPS. Looking deeper, it seems back pressure kick in and window operator consumes message really slowly and throttle sources. I also tried to limit window time to mins and all issues are gone. Any suggestion on this. My work around is I implemented processFunction and keep big value state, periodically evaluate and emit downstream (emulate what sliding window does) Thanks, Chen
