Roshan, After more testing, it became plain that the Windows environment was not the problem. The simultaneous JVMs were behaving well in the Windows environment. There does appear to be a documented memory leak problem with the HDFS sink for version 1.3.0. Our distro comes from IBM BigInsights, and yes, there do appear to be some differences between some dependencies from the open source and what comes with the IBM distro. So we are looking into working with them to fix the problem.
In the meantime, if you can think of any threads on the list pointing to HDFS sink and out of memory errors, I would be grateful if some can be sent my way. All the best, Chris. On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Roshan Naik <ros...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > Is that a custom Flume build or from some distro ? Hard to say without > additional info. anything interesting in the logs when it crashes ? > > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Christopher Shannon < > cshannon...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> For development and testing, I sometimes have to run multiple agents on >> the same server / workstation. Recently I had to load test a second agent >> in a Windows environment with a near identical configuration (except for >> paths and more memory allocated to the JVM), but the agent in the second >> JVM soon ground to a halt whereas the first JVM with less memory worked >> without slowdown. >> >> The total physicsl memory on the machine is 32 gb, and the total physical >> RAM used never exceds 14GB. Disk space is plentiful. Agent A (started >> first) has a max JVM heap space of 4 gb, the second JVM (Agent B) has 8 gb >> allocated. Both use a spooling file source, a memory channel, and an Avro >> sink. >> >> Yet agent B is the one that slows down and evetually hangs. I have stood >> up multiple Flume agents on Linux without this problem. >> >> What could account for the degrading performance in a Windows environment >> for the second agent but not the first? >> >> All the best, Chris >> >> p.s. The agent version is 1.3.0, and I can't change it for contractual >> reasons. >> > > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > NOTICE: This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity > to which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, > privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader > of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that > any printing, copying, dissemination, distribution, disclosure or > forwarding of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately > and delete it from your system. Thank You.
