Thanks for clarifying.

On Feb 2, 2017 6:33 AM, "Christopher Shannon" <
christopher.l.shan...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The broker will continue to work just fine and the index deletion is not
> required.  You only need to delete the index file if you want to reclaim
> the wasted space otherwise the fix will at least prevent the issue from
> getting worse.
>
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 8:27 AM, Tim Bain <tb...@alumni.duke.edu> wrote:
>
> > Chris,
> >
> > What will be the behavior for anyone who doesn't delete their index after
> > upgrading? Will the broker continue to function as-is in that scenario,
> or
> > is this a required procedure during an upgrade beyond 5.14.3?
> >
> > Tim
> >
> > On Feb 2, 2017 5:02 AM, "Christopher Shannon" <
> > christopher.l.shan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry for taking a while to get back to you.
> > >
> > > Based on your originally message and after analyzing some index files I
> > > have actually discovered a bug with KahaDB that causes the index file
> to
> > > grow too large when things like out of memory errors occur or any
> unclean
> > > shutdown.  On recovery the free pages in the index file are not being
> > > properly tracked which is leading to excessive index file usage.  So
> this
> > > is probably the issue that you are seeing.  I will be fixing this in
> > > version 5.14.4.  Upon upgrade you will need to delete the old index and
> > > have it be rebuilt and then going forward it should work as intended.
> > You
> > > can track the status of the bug here:
> > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-6590
> > >
> > > In terms of the in memory cache, only a fixed number of pages are
> cached.
> > > The default is 10 thousand pages and each page is 4KB.  So roughly 40
> MB
> > of
> > > memory will be used at most.  If the number of pages in use grows
> beyond
> > > that then the cache will swap pages based on the defined eviction
> > > strategy.  You can increase the number of pages in memory (which would
> > help
> > > performance at the cost of eating up memory) by tweaking the
> > indexCacheSize
> > > value of KahaDB.  See http://activemq.apache.org/kahadb.html for more
> > > info.
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 11:00 PM, Scorpio <n...@xiangjiabao.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Christopher:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thank you for your explanation!
> > > >
> > > > Hope there would be other proper ways to shrink the index file in
> > future
> > > > ActiveMQ releases.
> > > >
> > > > Once we monitored that our broker is killed by system due to "out of
> > > > memory".
> > > >
> > > > I know that meta cache in memory will be synced into index file at
> > > > checking points. _*Does this mean there is as much memory as  the
> > > > db.data file being used?*_
> > > >
> > > > Even though our broker is idle,  we still find that it uses up much
> > > > memory. Could they be relevant associated? Thanks
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Kind regards,
> > > >
> > > > Scorpio
> > > >
> > > > On 2017/1/24 20:16, christopher.l.shannon [via ActiveMQ] wrote:
> > > > > The index grows based off the amount of data it tracks in the
> > journal,
> > > > > but doesn't shrink.  This means if you had a lot of data in your
> > > > > journal at some point (several gigabytes, etc) then the index would
> > > > > have grown in size with enough page files to keep track of all of
> the
> > > > > data.  This is usually not an issue because the index size
> generally
> > > > > stabilizes at some point relative to the work load of the broker.
> >  If
> > > > > you really want to shrink it the only way right now is to stop the
> > > > > broker, delete the index and restart so it does a replay and
> rebuilds
> > > > > the index but the size would just grow again as messages flow.
> > > > >
> > > > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 8:06 PM, Scorpio <[hidden email]
> > > > > </user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4721300&i=0>> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi, All,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > In my activemq instance, I find that the kahadb index file is
> > larger
> > > > > than
> > > > > > the journal file.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > As far as I know, /db.data/ is the meta store, index for the
> > journal
> > > > > file,
> > > > > > which should means it is much smaller than the journal file.
> > > > > However, it
> > > > > > does not look like that. The index file seems to keep growing
> while
> > > the
> > > > > > journal file is rotated. Do I miss something? Thanks.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Log attached:
> > > > > > root@host:~/run/apache-activemq-5.13.1/data/kahadb# du * -sh
> > > > > > 16M     db-16.log
> > > > > > 1.2G    db.data
> > > > > > 3.2M    db.redo
> > > > > > 4.0K    lock
> > > > > > root@host:~/run/apache-activemq-5.13.1/data/kahadb#
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Kind regards,
> > > > > > Scorpio
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
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