Hey,

We're running Flink 1.5.2 (I know there's 1.5.4 and 1.6.1) on YARN for some 
jobs we're processing. It's a "long running" container to which we're 
submitting jobs - all jobs submitted to that container have got parallelism of 
32 (to be precise: in this job there are 8 subtasks with parallelism 32 and one 
subtask with parallelism 1), we're running max 8 of them. TMs are set to have 
one slot only and 6GB RAM each.
On the beginning, when using Flink 1.5.0 and 1.5.1 with the "on-demand" 
resources policy we were noticing that more containers than it's required are 
spawned but with Flink 1.5.2 it "stabilized" - there were obviously some 
containers kept for some time after job finished (and no additional job was 
submitted to take those resources) but overhead wasn't big so we were "all 
good".
And here's the plot twist.
For couple days now we're witnessing situations in which spawning one job makes 
Flink request couple hundreds of TMs. Additionally in JM's logs we can find 
dozens of lines like:
2018-10-03 11:08:27,186 INFO  org.apache.flink.yarn.YarnResourceManager         
            - Received new container: 
container_e96_1538374332137_0793_01_594295 - Remaining pending container 
requests: 0
2018-10-03 11:08:27,186 INFO  org.apache.flink.yarn.YarnResourceManager         
            - Returning excess container 
container_e96_1538374332137_0793_01_594295.
2018-10-03 11:08:27,186 INFO  org.apache.flink.yarn.YarnResourceManager         
            - Received new container: 
container_e96_1538374332137_0793_01_594300 - Remaining pending container 
requests: 0
2018-10-03 11:08:27,186 INFO  org.apache.flink.yarn.YarnResourceManager         
            - Returning excess container 
container_e96_1538374332137_0793_01_594300.
2018-10-03 11:08:27,186 INFO  org.apache.flink.yarn.YarnResourceManager         
            - Received new container: 
container_e96_1538374332137_0793_01_594303 - Remaining pending container 
requests: 0
2018-10-03 11:08:27,186 INFO  org.apache.flink.yarn.YarnResourceManager         
            - Returning excess container 
container_e96_1538374332137_0793_01_594303.
2018-10-03 11:08:27,186 INFO  org.apache.flink.yarn.YarnResourceManager         
            - Received new container: 
container_e96_1538374332137_0793_01_594304 - Remaining pending container 
requests: 0
2018-10-03 11:08:27,186 INFO  org.apache.flink.yarn.YarnResourceManager         
            - Returning excess container 
container_e96_1538374332137_0793_01_594304.
2018-10-03 11:08:27,186 INFO  org.apache.flink.yarn.YarnResourceManager         
            - Received new container: 
container_e96_1538374332137_0793_01_594334 - Remaining pending container 
requests: 0
2018-10-03 11:08:27,186 INFO  org.apache.flink.yarn.YarnResourceManager         
            - Returning excess container 
container_e96_1538374332137_0793_01_594334.
2018-10-03 11:08:27,186 INFO  org.apache.flink.yarn.YarnResourceManager         
            - Received new container: 
container_e96_1538374332137_0793_01_594337 - Remaining pending container 
requests: 0
2018-10-03 11:08:27,186 INFO  org.apache.flink.yarn.YarnResourceManager         
            - Returning excess container 
container_e96_1538374332137_0793_01_594337.
2018-10-03 11:08:27,186 INFO  org.apache.flink.yarn.YarnResourceManager         
            - Received new container: 
container_e96_1538374332137_0793_01_594152 - Remaining pending container 
requests: 0
2018-10-03 11:08:27,186 INFO  org.apache.flink.yarn.YarnResourceManager         
            - Returning excess container 
container_e96_1538374332137_0793_01_594152.
2018-10-03 11:08:27,186 INFO  org.apache.flink.yarn.YarnResourceManager         
            - Received new container: 
container_e96_1538374332137_0793_01_594410 - Remaining pending container 
requests: 0
2018-10-03 11:08:27,187 INFO  org.apache.flink.yarn.YarnResourceManager         
            - Returning excess container 
container_e96_1538374332137_0793_01_594410.
Only change made last week seems to be adding 5 new nodes to YARN Cluster.
Any ideas why it's requesting so many containers? Any ideas why there's this 
"Received/Returning" flood? Right now one job was started and out of a sudden 
352 containers were requested from YARN (also almost closing YARN's queue on 
RAM)

We're also experiencing JMs hangs (we can't view UI + TMs can't communicate 
with JM) but first I'd like to resolve above "issue" as it might be cause for 
rest of our problems.

Best regards,
Borys Gogulski

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