[jira] [Created] (KAFKA-6777) Wrong reaction on Out Of Memory situation

["Seweryn Habdank-Wojewodzki (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Seweryn Habdank-Wojewodzki created KAFKA-6777:
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             Summary: Wrong reaction on Out Of Memory situation
                 Key: KAFKA-6777
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-6777
             Project: Kafka
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: core
    Affects Versions: 1.0.0
            Reporter: Seweryn Habdank-Wojewodzki


Dears,

We already encountered many times problems related to Out Of Memory situation in Kafka Broker and streaming clients.

The scenario is the following.

When Kafka Broker (or Streaming Client) is under load and has too less memory, there are no errors in server logs. One can see some cryptic entries in GC logs, but they are definitely not self-explaining.

Kafka Broker (and Streaming Clients) works further. Later we see in JMX monitoring, that JVM uses more and more time in GC. In our case it grows from e. 1% to 80%-90% of CPU time is used by GC.

Next software collapses into zombie mode – process in not ending. In such a case I would expect, that process is crashing (e.g. got SIG SEGV). Even worse Kafka treats such a zombie process normal and somewhat sends messages, which are in fact getting lost, also the cluster is not excluding broken nodes. The question is how to configure Kafka to really terminate the JVM and not remain in zombie mode, to give a chance to other nodes to know, that something is dead.

I would expect that in Out Of Memory situation JVM is ended if not graceful than at least process is crashed.



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