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[jira] [Created] (KAFKA-3990) Kafka New Producer may raise an OutOfMemoryError

Brice Dutheil created KAFKA-3990:
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             Summary: Kafka New Producer may raise an OutOfMemoryError
                 Key: KAFKA-3990
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3990
             Project: Kafka
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: clients
    Affects Versions: 0.9.0.1
         Environment: Docker, Base image : CentOS
Java 8u77
            Reporter: Brice Dutheil


We are regularly seeing OOME errors on a kafka producer, we first saw :

{code}
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
    at java.nio.HeapByteBuffer.<init>(HeapByteBuffer.java:57) ~[na:1.8.0_77]
    at java.nio.ByteBuffer.allocate(ByteBuffer.java:335) ~[na:1.8.0_77]
    at org.apache.kafka.common.network.NetworkReceive.readFromReadableChannel(NetworkReceive.java:93) ~[kafka-clients-0.9.0.1.jar:na]
    at org.apache.kafka.common.network.NetworkReceive.readFrom(NetworkReceive.java:71) ~[kafka-clients-0.9.0.1.jar:na]
    at org.apache.kafka.common.network.KafkaChannel.receive(KafkaChannel.java:153) ~[kafka-clients-0.9.0.1.jar:na]
    at org.apache.kafka.common.network.KafkaChannel.read(KafkaChannel.java:134) ~[kafka-clients-0.9.0.1.jar:na]
    at org.apache.kafka.common.network.Selector.poll(Selector.java:286) ~[kafka-clients-0.9.0.1.jar:na]
    at org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient.poll(NetworkClient.java:256) ~[kafka-clients-0.9.0.1.jar:na]
    at org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.internals.Sender.run(Sender.java:216) ~[kafka-clients-0.9.0.1.jar:na]
    at org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.internals.Sender.run(Sender.java:128) ~[kafka-clients-0.9.0.1.jar:na]
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) ~[na:1.8.0_77]
{code}


This line refer to a buffer allocation {{ByteBuffer.allocate(receiveSize)}} (see https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/0.9.0.1/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/common/network/NetworkReceive.java#L93)

Usually the app runs fine within 200/400 MB heap and a 64 MB Metaspace. And we are producing small messages 500B at most.


Also the error don't appear on the devlopment environment, in order to identify the issue we tweaked the code to give us actual data of the allocation size, we got this stack :

{code}
09:55:49.484 [auth] [kafka-producer-network-thread | producer-1] WARN  o.a.k.c.n.NetworkReceive HEAP-ISSUE: constructor : Integer='-1', String='-1'
09:55:49.485 [auth] [kafka-producer-network-thread | producer-1] WARN  o.a.k.c.n.NetworkReceive HEAP-ISSUE: method : NetworkReceive.readFromReadableChannel.receiveSize=1213486160
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
Dumping heap to /tmp/tomcat.hprof ...
Heap dump file created [69583827 bytes in 0.365 secs]
09:55:50.324 [auth] [kafka-producer-network-thread | producer-1] ERROR o.a.k.c.utils.KafkaThread Uncaught exception in kafka-producer-network-thread | producer-1: 
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
  at java.nio.HeapByteBuffer.<init>(HeapByteBuffer.java:57) ~[na:1.8.0_77]
  at java.nio.ByteBuffer.allocate(ByteBuffer.java:335) ~[na:1.8.0_77]
  at org.apache.kafka.common.network.NetworkReceive.readFromReadableChannel(NetworkReceive.java:93) ~[kafka-clients-0.9.0.1.jar:na]
  at org.apache.kafka.common.network.NetworkReceive.readFrom(NetworkReceive.java:71) ~[kafka-clients-0.9.0.1.jar:na]
  at org.apache.kafka.common.network.KafkaChannel.receive(KafkaChannel.java:153) ~[kafka-clients-0.9.0.1.jar:na]
  at org.apache.kafka.common.network.KafkaChannel.read(KafkaChannel.java:134) ~[kafka-clients-0.9.0.1.jar:na]
  at org.apache.kafka.common.network.Selector.poll(Selector.java:286) ~[kafka-clients-0.9.0.1.jar:na]
  at org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient.poll(NetworkClient.java:256) ~[kafka-clients-0.9.0.1.jar:na]
  at org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.internals.Sender.run(Sender.java:216) ~[kafka-clients-0.9.0.1.jar:na]
  at org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.internals.Sender.run(Sender.java:128) ~[kafka-clients-0.9.0.1.jar:na]
  at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) ~[na:1.8.0_77]
{code}


Notice the size to allocate {{1213486160}} ~1.2 GB. I'm not yet sure how this size is initialised.
Notice as well that every time this OOME appear the NetworkReceive constructor receive the parameters : {{maxSize=-1}}, {{source="-1"}} (https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/0.9.0.1/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/common/network/NetworkReceive.java#L49)

We may have missed configuration in our setup but kafka clients shouldn't raise an OOME. For reference the producer is initialised with :

{code}
        Properties props = new Properties();
        props.put(BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS_CONFIG, properties.bootstrapServers);
        props.put(ACKS_CONFIG, "ONE");
        props.put(RETRIES_CONFIG, 0);
        props.put(BATCH_SIZE_CONFIG, 16384);
        props.put(LINGER_MS_CONFIG, 0);
        props.put(BUFFER_MEMORY_CONFIG, 33554432);
        props.put(REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS_CONFIG, 1000);
        props.put(MAX_BLOCK_MS_CONFIG, 1000);
        props.put(KEY_SERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG, StringSerializer.class.getName());
        props.put(VALUE_SERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG, JSONSerializer.class.getName());
{code}

For reference while googling for the issue we found a similar stack trace with the new consumer API on the same class on the ATLAS project: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ATLAS-665


If anything is missing please reach out.



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