[jira] [Created] (BEAM-3499) Watch can make no progress if a single poll takes more than checkpoint interval

["Eugene Kirpichov (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Eugene Kirpichov created BEAM-3499:
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             Summary: Watch can make no progress if a single poll takes more than checkpoint interval
                 Key: BEAM-3499
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-3499
             Project: Beam
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: sdk-java-core
            Reporter: Eugene Kirpichov
            Assignee: Eugene Kirpichov


E.g. when using it to poll a filepattern with hundreds of thousands of files, a single poll may take >10 seconds (default checkpoint interval in OutputAndTimeBoundedSplittableProcessElementInvoker). Because of that, the tracker (GrowthTracker) gets checkpointed before anything is added to it, i.e. before [https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/0d918b7cab8c4ccb2b5e050501327912161d40a7/sdks/java/core/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/transforms/Watch.java#L727,] at a moment when it doesn't contain any useful information, so the residual checkpoint state is as empty as the initial one.

One possible fix to this is to change the SDF checkpointing strategy to have a progress guarantee: e.g., start counting time from the moment the first block is claimed, or allow the tracker to refuse checkpointing if nothing is claimed yet, or something like that.

 

A workaround for users of this (primarily via FileIO.match().continuously()) is to shard their filepattern into a set of finer-granularity filepatterns matching fewer files, so that each match call takes less than 10 seconds.



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