I played a bit around with your info and this looks now like a general problem in RocksDB to me. Or more specifically, between RocksDB and the JNI bridge. I could reproduce the issue with the following simple test code:
File rocksDir = new File("/tmp/rocks"); final Options options = new Options() .setCreateIfMissing(true) .setMergeOperator(new StringAppendOperator()) .setCompactionStyle(CompactionStyle.LEVEL) .setLevelCompactionDynamicLevelBytes(true) .setIncreaseParallelism(4) .setUseFsync(false) .setMaxOpenFiles(-1) .setAllowOsBuffer(true) .setDisableDataSync(true); final WriteOptions write_options = new WriteOptions() .setSync(false) .setDisableWAL(true); try (final RocksDB rocksDB = RocksDB.open(options, rocksDir.getAbsolutePath())) { final String key = "key"; final String value = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ7890654321"; byte[] keyBytes = key.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8); keyBytes = Arrays.copyOf(keyBytes, keyBytes.length + 1); final byte[] valueBytes = value.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8); final int num = (Integer.MAX_VALUE / valueBytes.length) * 2; System.out.println("begin insert"); final long beginInsert = System.nanoTime(); for (int i = 0; i < num; i++) { keyBytes[keyBytes.length - 1] = (byte) (i % 9); rocksDB.merge(write_options, keyBytes, valueBytes); } final long endInsert = System.nanoTime(); System.out.println("end insert - duration: " + ((endInsert - beginInsert) / 1_000_000) + " ms"); final long beginGet = System.nanoTime(); try (RocksIterator iterator = rocksDB.newIterator()) { iterator.seekToFirst(); while (iterator.isValid()) { iterator.next(); byte[] bytes = iterator.value(); System.out.println(bytes.length + " " + bytes[bytes.length - 1]); } } final long endGet = System.nanoTime(); System.out.println("end get - duration: " + ((endGet - beginGet) / 1_000_000) + " ms"); } Depending on how smooth the 1.3 release is going, maybe I find some time next week to take a closer look into this. If this is urgent, please also feel free to already report this problem to the RocksDB issue tracker. Best, Stefan > Am 26.05.2017 um 16:40 schrieb Jason Brelloch <jb.bc....@gmail.com>: > > ~2 GB was the total state in the backend. The total number of keys in the > test is 10 with an approximately even distribution of state across keys, and > parallelism of 1 so all keys are on the same taskmanager. We are using > ListState and the number of elements per list would be about 500000. > > On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Stefan Richter <s.rich...@data-artisans.com > <mailto:s.rich...@data-artisans.com>> wrote: > Hi, > > what means „our state“ in this context? The total state in the backend or the > state under one key? If you use, e.g. list state, I could see that the state > for one key can grow above 2GB, but once we retrieve the state back from > RocksDB as Java arrays (in your stacktrace, when making a checkpoint), which > are bounded in size to a maximum of 2GB (Integer.MAX_VALUE) and maybe that is > what happens in JNI if you try to go beyond that limit. Could that be a > reason for your problem? > >> Am 26.05.2017 um 15:50 schrieb Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org >> <mailto:rmetz...@apache.org>>: >> >> Hi Jason, >> >> This error is unexpected. I don't think its caused by insufficient memory. >> I'm including Stefan into the conversation, he's the RocksDB expert :) >> >> On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 4:15 PM, Jason Brelloch <jb.bc....@gmail.com >> <mailto:jb.bc....@gmail.com>> wrote: >> Hey guys, >> >> We are running into a JVM crash on checkpointing when our rocksDB state >> reaches a certain size on a taskmanager (about 2GB). The issue happens with >> both a hadoop backend and just writing to a local file. >> >> We are running on Flink 1.2.1. >> >> # >> # A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment: >> # >> # SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007febf4261b42, pid=1, tid=0x00007fead135f700 >> # >> # JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (8.0_131-b11) (build >> 1.8.0_131-b11) >> # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (25.131-b11 mixed mode >> linux-amd64 compressed oops) >> # Problematic frame: >> # V [libjvm.so+0x6d1b42] jni_SetByteArrayRegion+0xc2 >> # >> # Core dump written. Default location: //core or core.1 >> # >> # An error report file with more information is saved as: >> # /tmp/hs_err_pid1.log >> # >> # If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit: >> # http://bugreport.java.com/bugreport/crash.jsp >> <http://bugreport.java.com/bugreport/crash.jsp> >> # >> >> Is this an issue with not enough memory? Or maybe not enough allocated to >> rocksDB? >> >> I have attached the taskmanager logs, and the core dump. The jobmanager >> logs just say taskmanger lost/killed. >> >> Thanks! >> >> -- >> Jason Brelloch | Product Developer >> 3405 Piedmont Rd. NE, Suite 325, Atlanta, GA 30305 >> <http://www.bettercloud.com/> >> Subscribe to the BetterCloud Monitor >> <https://www.bettercloud.com/monitor?utm_source=bettercloud_email&utm_medium=email_signature&utm_campaign=monitor_launch> >> - Get IT delivered to your inbox >> > > > > > -- > Jason Brelloch | Product Developer > 3405 Piedmont Rd. NE, Suite 325, Atlanta, GA 30305 > <http://www.bettercloud.com/> > Subscribe to the BetterCloud Monitor > <https://www.bettercloud.com/monitor?utm_source=bettercloud_email&utm_medium=email_signature&utm_campaign=monitor_launch> > - Get IT delivered to your inbox