Hi all, To have a simple way of testing the Spark Streaming Write Ahead Log I created a very simple Custom Input Receiver, which will generate strings and store those:
class InMemoryStringReceiver extends Receiver[String](StorageLevel.MEMORY_AND_DISK_SER) { val batchID = System.currentTimeMillis() def onStart() { new Thread("InMemoryStringReceiver") { override def run(): Unit = { var i = 0 while(true) { //http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/streaming-custom-receivers.html //To implement a reliable receiver, you have to use store(multiple-records) to store data. store(ArrayBuffer(s"$batchID-$i")) println(s"Stored => [$batchID-$i)]") Thread.sleep(1000L) i = i + 1 } } }.start() } def onStop() {} } I then created a simple Application which will use the Custom Receiver to stream the data and process it: object DStreamResilienceTest extends App { val conf = new SparkConf().setMaster("local[*]").setAppName("DStreamResilienceTest").set("spark.streaming.receiver.writeAheadLog.enable", "true") val ssc = new StreamingContext(conf, Seconds(1)) ssc.checkpoint("hdfs://myhdfsserver/user/spark/checkpoint/DStreamResilienceTest") val customReceiverStream: ReceiverInputDStream[String] = ssc.receiverStream(new InMemoryStringReceiver()) customReceiverStream.foreachRDD { (rdd: RDD[String]) => println(s"processed => [${rdd.collect().toList}]") Thread.sleep(2000L) } ssc.start() ssc.awaitTermination() } As you can see the processing of each received RDD has sleep of 2 seconds while the Strings are stored every second. This creates a backlog and the new strings pile up, and should be stored in the WAL. Indeed, I can see the files in the checkpoint dirs getting updated. Running the app I get output like this: [info] Stored => [1453374654941-0)] [info] processed => [List(1453374654941-0)] [info] Stored => [1453374654941-1)] [info] Stored => [1453374654941-2)] [info] processed => [List(1453374654941-1)] [info] Stored => [1453374654941-3)] [info] Stored => [1453374654941-4)] [info] processed => [List(1453374654941-2)] [info] Stored => [1453374654941-5)] [info] Stored => [1453374654941-6)] [info] processed => [List(1453374654941-3)] [info] Stored => [1453374654941-7)] [info] Stored => [1453374654941-8)] [info] processed => [List(1453374654941-4)] [info] Stored => [1453374654941-9)] [info] Stored => [1453374654941-10)] As you would expect, the storing is out pacing the processing. So I kill the application and restart it. This time I commented out the sleep in the foreachRDD so that the processing can clear any backlog: [info] Stored => [1453374753946-0)] [info] processed => [List(1453374753946-0)] [info] Stored => [1453374753946-1)] [info] processed => [List(1453374753946-1)] [info] Stored => [1453374753946-2)] [info] processed => [List(1453374753946-2)] [info] Stored => [1453374753946-3)] [info] processed => [List(1453374753946-3)] [info] Stored => [1453374753946-4)] [info] processed => [List(1453374753946-4)] As you can see the new events are processed but none from the previous batch. The old WAL logs are cleared and I see log messages like this but the old data does not get processed. INFO WriteAheadLogManager : Recovered 1 write ahead log files from hdfs://myhdfsserver/user/spark/checkpoint/DStreamResilienceTest/receivedData/0 What am I doing wrong? I am using Spark 1.5.2. Best regards, Patrick