Hi Vishal, hi Mu, After the savepoint state has been written, the sink might start new .in-progress files. These files are not part of the savepoint but renamed to .pending in close(). On restore all pending files that are part of the savepoint are moved into final state (and possibly truncated). See handlePendingInProgressFiles() method. Pending files that are not part of the savepoint (because they were created later between taking the savepoint and shutting the job down) are not touched and remain as .pending files.
These should be the .pending files that you observe. Since they contain data that is not part of the savepoint, it should be save to delete them. If you keep them, you will have at-least-once output. Best, Fabian 2018-02-21 5:04 GMT+01:00 Mu Kong <kong.mu....@gmail.com>: > Hi Aljoscha, > > Thanks for confirming that fact that Flink doesn't clean up pending files. > Is that safe to clean(remove) all the pending files after cancel(w/ or w/o > savepointing) or failover? > If we do that, will we lose some data? > > Thanks! > > Best, > Mu > > > > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 5:27 AM, Vishal Santoshi < > vishal.santo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Sorry, but just wanted to confirm that the assertion "at-least-once" >> delivery true if there is a dangling pending file ? >> >> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 2:21 PM, Vishal Santoshi < >> vishal.santo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> That is fine, till flink assure at-least-once semantics ? >>> >>> If the contents of a .pending file, through the turbulence ( restarts >>> etc ) are assured to be in another file than anything starting with "_" >>> underscore will by default ignored by hadoop ( hive or MR etc ). >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 11:03 AM, Aljoscha Krettek <aljos...@apache.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Sorry for the confusion. The framework (Flink) does currently not do >>>> any cleanup of pending files, yes. >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> Aljoscha >>>> >>>> >>>> On 19. Feb 2018, at 17:01, Vishal Santoshi <vishal.santo...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >> You should only have these dangling pending files after a >>>> failure-recovery cycle, as you noticed. My suggestion would be to >>>> periodically clean up older pending files. >>>> >>>> A little confused. Is that what the framework should do, or us as part >>>> of some cleanup job ? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:47 AM, Aljoscha Krettek <aljos...@apache.org >>>> > wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> The BucketingSink does not clean up pending files on purpose. In a >>>>> distributed setting, and especially with rescaling of Flink operators, it >>>>> is sufficiently hard to figure out which of the pending files you actually >>>>> can delete and which of them you have to leave because they will get moved >>>>> to "final" as part of recovering from a checkpoint on some other parallel >>>>> instance of the sink. >>>>> >>>>> You should only have these dangling pending files after a >>>>> failure-recovery cycle, as you noticed. My suggestion would be to >>>>> periodically clean up older pending files. >>>>> >>>>> Best, >>>>> Aljoscha >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 19. Feb 2018, at 16:37, Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi Vishal, >>>>> >>>>> what pending files should indeed get eventually finalized. This >>>>> happens on a checkpoint complete notification. Thus, what you report seems >>>>> not right. Maybe Aljoscha can shed a bit more light into the problem. >>>>> >>>>> In order to further debug the problem, it would be really helpful to >>>>> get access to DEBUG log files of a TM which runs the BucketingSink. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Till >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 5:26 AM, Mu Kong <kong.mu....@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi Vishal, >>>>>> >>>>>> I have the same concern about save pointing in BucketingSink. >>>>>> As for your question, I think before the pending files get cleared in >>>>>> handleRestoredBucketState . >>>>>> They are finalized in notifyCheckpointComplete >>>>>> >>>>>> https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/master/flink-connectors >>>>>> /flink-connector-filesystem/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/s >>>>>> treaming/connectors/fs/bucketing/BucketingSink.java#L628 >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm looking into this part of the source code now, since we are >>>>>> experiencing some unclosed files after check pointing. >>>>>> It would be great if you can share more if you find something new >>>>>> about your problem, which might help with our problem. >>>>>> >>>>>> Best regards, >>>>>> Mu >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 11:34 AM, Vishal Santoshi < >>>>>> vishal.santo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hadoop 11 2018-02-14 18:48 >>>>>>> /kraken/sessions_uuid_csid_v3/dt=2018-02-14/_part-0-18.valid-length >>>>>>> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hadoop 54053518 2018-02-14 19:15 >>>>>>> /kraken/sessions_uuid_csid_v3/dt=2018-02-14/_part-0-19.pending >>>>>>> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hadoop 11 2018-02-14 21:17 >>>>>>> /kraken/sessions_uuid_csid_v3/dt=2018-02-14/_part-0-20.valid-length >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> This is strange, we had a few retries b'coz of an OOM on one of the >>>>>>> TMs and we see this situation. 2 files ( on either sides ) that were >>>>>>> dealt >>>>>>> with fine but a dangling .pending file. I am sure this is not what is >>>>>>> meant >>>>>>> to be. We I think have an edge condition and looking at the code it is >>>>>>> not obvious. May be some one who wrote the code can shed some light as >>>>>>> to >>>>>>> how can this happen. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 2:01 PM, Vishal Santoshi < >>>>>>> vishal.santo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> without --allowNonRestoredState, on a suspend/resume we do see the >>>>>>>> length file along with the finalized file ( finalized during resume ) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -rw-r--r-- 3 root hadoop 10 2018-02-09 13:57 >>>>>>>> /vishal/sessionscid/dt=2018-02-09/_part-0-28.valid-length >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> that does makes much more sense. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I guess we should document --allowNonRestoredState better ? It >>>>>>>> seems it actually drops state ? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 1:37 PM, Vishal Santoshi < >>>>>>>> vishal.santo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> This is 1.4 BTW. I am not sure that I am reading this correctly >>>>>>>>> but the lifecycle of cancel/resume is 2 steps >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> 1. Cancel job with SP >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> closeCurrentPartFile >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/master/flink-connectors >>>>>>>>> /flink-connector-filesystem/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/s >>>>>>>>> treaming/connectors/fs/bucketing/BucketingSink.java#L549 >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> is called from close() >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/master/flink-connectors >>>>>>>>> /flink-connector-filesystem/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/s >>>>>>>>> treaming/connectors/fs/bucketing/BucketingSink.java#L416 >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> and that moves files to pending state. That I would presume is >>>>>>>>> called when one does a cancel. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> 2. The restore on resume >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/master/flink-connectors >>>>>>>>> /flink-connector-filesystem/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/s >>>>>>>>> treaming/connectors/fs/bucketing/BucketingSink.java#L369 >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> calls >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> handleRestoredBucketState >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/master/flink-connectors >>>>>>>>> /flink-connector-filesystem/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/s >>>>>>>>> treaming/connectors/fs/bucketing/BucketingSink.java#L704 >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> clears the pending files from state without finalizing them? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> That does not seem to be right. I must be reading the code totally >>>>>>>>> wrong ? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I am not sure also whether --allowNonRestoredState is skipping >>>>>>>>> getting the state . At least https://ci.apache.org/pr >>>>>>>>> ojects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.4/ops/cli.html#savepoints is >>>>>>>>> not exactly clear what it does if we add an operator ( GDF I think >>>>>>>>> will add >>>>>>>>> a new operator in the DAG without state even if stateful, in my case >>>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>>> Map operator is not even stateful ) >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Thanks and please bear with me if this is all something pretty >>>>>>>>> simple. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Vishal >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 11:54 AM, Vishal Santoshi < >>>>>>>>> vishal.santo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> What should be the behavior of BucketingSink vis a vis state ( >>>>>>>>>> pending , inprogess and finalization ) when we suspend and resume ? >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> So I did this >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> * I had a pipe writing to hdfs suspend and resume using >>>>>>>>>> --allowNonRestoredState as in I had added a harmless MapOperator >>>>>>>>>> ( stateless ). >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> * I see that a file on hdfs, the file being written to ( before >>>>>>>>>> the cancel with save point ) go into a pending state >>>>>>>>>> _part-0-21.pending >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> * I see a new file being written to in the resumed pipe >>>>>>>>>> _part-0-22.in-progress. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> What I do not see is the file in _part-0-21.pending being >>>>>>>>>> finalized ( as in renamed to a just part-0-21. I would have assumed >>>>>>>>>> that >>>>>>>>>> would be the case in this controlled suspend/resume circumstance. >>>>>>>>>> Further >>>>>>>>>> it is a rename and hdfs mv is not an expensive operation. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Am I understanding the process correct and it yes any pointers ? >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Regards, >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Vishal >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
