[jira] [Created] (CASSANDRA-13095) Timeouts between nodes

["Danil Smirnov (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Danil Smirnov created CASSANDRA-13095:
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             Summary: Timeouts between nodes
                 Key: CASSANDRA-13095
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13095
             Project: Cassandra
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: Danil Smirnov
            Priority: Minor


Recently I've run into a problem with heavily loaded cluster when sometimes messages between certain nodes become blocked with no reason.

It's very similar to situation described here https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12676?focusedCommentId=15736166&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-15736166 although in my case nodes does not seem to recover.

Thread dump showed infinite loop here: https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/a8a43dd32eb92406d7d8b105e08c68b3d5c7df49/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/utils/CoalescingStrategies.java#L109

Apparently the problem is an initial value of epoch filed in TimeHorizonMovingAverageCoalescingStrategy class. When it's value is not evenly divisible by BUCKET_INTERVAL, ix(epoch-1) does not point to the correct bucket. As a result, sum gradually increases and, upon reaching MEASURED_INTERVAL, averageGap becomes 0 and thread blocks.
It's hard to reproduce because when no messages are send for some time, sum becomes 0 https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/a8a43dd32eb92406d7d8b105e08c68b3d5c7df49/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/utils/CoalescingStrategies.java#L301 . So this bug affects only heavily loaded clusters.

I've added a patch which should fix the problem. Don't know if it would be of any help since CASSANDRA-12676 will apparently disable this behaviour. One note about performance thought. Due to incorrect averageGap calculation, currently TIMEHORIZON sleeps a lot more than reasonable, so it might be worth testing performance after fixes and/or tune the algorithm.



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