[jira] [Created] (FLINK-6873) Limit the number of open writers in file system connector

["Mu Kong (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Mu Kong created FLINK-6873:
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             Summary: Limit the number of open writers in file system connector
                 Key: FLINK-6873
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-6873
             Project: Flink
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Mu Kong


Mail list discuss:
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#label/MailList%2Fflink-dev/15c869b2a5b20d43

Following exception will occur when Flink is writing to too many files:

{code}
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread
at java.lang.Thread.start0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Thread.start(Thread.java:714)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSOutputStream.start(DFSOutputStream.java:2170)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSOutputStream.newStreamForCreate(DFSOutputStream.java:1685)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient.create(DFSClient.java:1689)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient.create(DFSClient.java:1624)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem$7.doCall(DistributedFileSystem.java:448)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem$7.doCall(DistributedFileSystem.java:444)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystemLinkResolver.resolve(FileSystemLinkResolver.java:81)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem.create(DistributedFileSystem.java:459)
at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem.create(DistributedFileSystem.java:387)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.create(FileSystem.java:909)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.create(FileSystem.java:890)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.create(FileSystem.java:787)
at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.fs.StreamWriterBase.open(StreamWriterBase.java:120)
at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.fs.StringWriter.open(StringWriter.java:62)
at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.fs.bucketing.BucketingSink.openNewPartFile(BucketingSink.java:545)
at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.fs.bucketing.BucketingSink.invoke(BucketingSink.java:440)
at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.StreamSink.processElement(StreamSink.java:41)
at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.OperatorChain$CopyingChainingOutput.pushToOperator(OperatorChain.java:528)
at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.OperatorChain$CopyingChainingOutput.collect(OperatorChain.java:503)
at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.OperatorChain$CopyingChainingOutput.collect(OperatorChain.java:483)
at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.AbstractStreamOperator$CountingOutput.collect(AbstractStreamOperator.java:891)
at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.AbstractStreamOperator$CountingOutput.collect(AbstractStreamOperator.java:869)
at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.StreamSourceContexts$NonTimestampContext.collect(StreamSourceContexts.java:103)
at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.internals.AbstractFetcher.emitRecord(AbstractFetcher.java:230)
at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.internals.SimpleConsumerThread.run(SimpleConsumerThread.java:379)
{code}

Letting developers decide the max open connections to the open files would be great.



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