Senior Software Engineer LIVING WITH GARBAGE! Gregg Donovan etsy.com
Jun 19, 2015
Senior Software Engineer
LIVING WITH GARBAGE!
Gregg Donovan
etsy.com
4 Years Solr & Lucene at etsy.com
3 years Solr & Lucene at TheLadders.com
10+ million members
24+ million items
1mm+ active sellers
10+ billion pageviews per month
CodeAsCraft.etsy.com
Understanding GCMonitoring GC
Debugging Memory LeaksDesign for Partial Availability
public class BuzzwordDetector { static String[] prefixes = { "synergy", "win-win" }; static String[] myArgs = { "clown synergy", "gorilla win-wins", "whamee" }; ! public static void main(String[] args) { args = myArgs; ! int buzzwords = 0; for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i++) { String lc = args[i].toLowerCase(); for (int j = 0; j < prefixes.length; j++) { if (lc.contains(prefixes[j])) { buzzwords++; } } } System.out.println("Found " + buzzwords + " buzzwords"); } }
New(): ref <- allocate() if ref = null /* Heap is full */ collect() ref <- allocate() if ref = null /* Heap is still full */ error "Out of memory" return ref atomic collect(): markFromRoots() sweep(HeapStart, HeapEnd)
From Garbage Collection Handbook
markFromRoots(): initialise(worklist) for each fld in Roots ref <- *fld if ref != null && not isMarked(ref) setMarked(ref) add(worklist, ref) mark() initialise(worklist): worklist <- empty mark(): while not isEmpty(worklist) ref <- remove(worklist) /* ref is marked */ for each fld in Pointers(ref) child <- *fld if (child != null && not isMarked(child) setMarked(child) add(worklist, child)
From Garbage Collection Handbook
Trivia: Who invented the first GC and Mark-and-Sweep?
Weak Generational Hypothesis
Where do objects in common Solr application live?
AtomicReaderContext?
SolrIndexSearcher?
SolrRequest?
GC Terminology: Concurrent vs Parallel
JVM Collectors
Serial
Trivia: How does System.identityHashCode() work?
Throughput
CMS
Garbage First (G1)
Continuously Concurrent Compacting Collector (C4)
IBM, Dalvik, etc.?
Why Throughput?
Questions so far?
Monitoring
GC time per Solr request
... import java.lang.management.*; ... ! public static long getCollectionTime() { long collectionTime = 0; for (GarbageCollectorMXBean mbean : ManagementFactory.getGarbageCollectorMXBeans()) { collectionTime += mbean.getCollectionTime(); } return collectionTime; }
Available via JMX
Visual GC
export GC_DEBUG="-verbose:gc \ -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps \ -XX:+PrintHeapAtGC \ -XX:+PrintGCApplicationStoppedTime \ -XX:+PrintGCApplicationConcurrentTime \ -XX:+PrintAdaptiveSizePolicy \ -XX:AdaptiveSizePolicyOutputInterval=1 \ -XX:+PrintTenuringDistribution \ -XX:+PrintGCDetails \ -XX:+PrintCommandLineFlags \ -XX:+PrintSafepointStatistics \ -Xloggc:/var/log/search/gc.log"
2013-04-08T20:14:00.162+0000: 4197.791: [Full GCAdaptiveSizeStart: 4206.559 collection: 213 PSAdaptiveSizePolicy::compute_generation_free_space limits: desired_promo_size: 9927789154 promo_limit: 8321564672 free_in_old_gen: 4096 max_old_gen_size: 22190686208 avg_old_live: 22190682112 AdaptiveSizePolicy::compute_generation_free_space limits: desired_eden_size: 9712028790 old_eden_size: 8321564672 eden_limit: 8321564672 cur_eden: 8321564672 max_eden_size: 8321564672 avg_young_live: 7340911616 AdaptiveSizePolicy::compute_generation_free_space: gc time limit gc_cost: 1.000000 GCTimeLimit: 98 PSAdaptiveSizePolicy::compute_generation_free_space: costs minor_time: 0.167092 major_cost: 0.965075 mutator_cost: 0.000000 throughput_goal: 0.990000 live_space: 29859940352 free_space: 16643129344 old_promo_size: 8321564672 old_eden_size: 8321564672 desired_promo_size: 8321564672 desired_eden_size: 8321564672 AdaptiveSizeStop: collection: 213 [PSYoungGen: 8126528K->7599356K(9480896K)] [ParOldGen: 21670588K->21670588K(21670592K)] 29797116K->29269944K(31151488K) [PSPermGen: 58516K->58512K(65536K)], 8.7690670 secs] [Times: user=137.36 sys=0.03, real=8.77 secs] Heap after GC invocations=213 (full 210): PSYoungGen total 9480896K, used 7599356K [0x00007fee47ab0000, 0x00007ff0dd000000, 0x00007ff0dd000000) eden space 8126528K, 93% used [0x00007fee47ab0000,0x00007ff0177ef080,0x00007ff037ac0000) from space 1354368K, 0% used [0x00007ff037ac0000,0x00007ff037ac0000,0x00007ff08a560000) to space 1354368K, 0% used [0x00007ff08a560000,0x00007ff08a560000,0x00007ff0dd000000) ParOldGen total 21670592K, used 21670588K [0x00007fe91d000000, 0x00007fee47ab0000, 0x00007fee47ab0000) object space 21670592K, 99% used [0x00007fe91d000000,0x00007fee47aaf0e0,0x00007fee47ab0000) PSPermGen total 65536K, used 58512K [0x00007fe915000000, 0x00007fe919000000, 0x00007fe91d000000) object space 65536K, 89% used [0x00007fe915000000,0x00007fe918924130,0x00007fe919000000) }
GC Log Analyzers?
GCHisto
GCViewer
garbagecat
GC Dashboardgithub.com/etsy/dashboard
YourKit.com
Designing for Partial Availability
JVMTI GC Hook?
How can a client ignore GC-ing hosts?
Server lies to clients about availability
TCP socket receive buffer
TCP write buffer
“Banner” protocol1. Connect via TCP
2. Wait ~1-10ms
3. Either receive magic four byte header or try another host
4. Only send query after receiving header from server
0xC0DEA5CF
What if GC happens mid-request?
Backup requests
Jeff Dean: Achieving Rapid Response Time in Large
Online Services
Solr sharding?
Right now, only as fast as the slowest shard.
“Make a reliable whole out of unreliable parts.”
Memory Leaks
Solr API hooks for custom code
QParserPlugin SearchComponent
SolrRequestHandler SolrEventListenerQParserPlugin
SolrCache ValueSourceParser
etc.FieldType
QParserPluginPSA: Are you sure you need custom code?
CoreContainer#getCore()
RefCounted<SolrIndexSearcher>
SolrIndexSearcher generation marking with YourKit triggers
Questions so far?
Miscellaneous Topics
System.gc()?
-XX:+UseCompressedOops
-XX:+UseNUMA
Paging
#!/usr/bin/env bash !# This script is designed to be run every minute by cron. !host=$(hostname -s) !psout=$(ps h -p `cat /var/run/etsy-search.pid` -o min_flt,maj_flt 2>/dev/null) min_flt=$(echo $psout | awk '{print $1}') # minor page faults maj_flt=$(echo $psout | awk '{print $2}') # major page faults !epoch_s=$(date +%s) !echo -e "search_memstats.$host.etsy-search.min_flt\t${min_flt:-0}\t$epoch_s" | nc graphite.etsycorp.com 2003 echo -e "search_memstats.$host.etsy-search.maj_flt\t${maj_flt:-0}\t$epoch_s" | nc graphite.etsycorp.com 2003
Solution 1: Buy more RAM
Ideally enough RAM to: Keep index in OS file buffers AND ensure no paging of VM memory AND whatever else happens on the box
~$5-10/GB
echo “0” > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
mlock()/mlockall()github.com/LucidWorks/mlockall-agent
echo “-17” > /proc/$PID/oom_adj
Mercy from the OOM Killer
Huge Pages
-XX:+AlwaysPreTouch
Possible Future Directions
Many small VMs instead of one large VM
microsharding
In-memory Lucene codecs
I.e. custom DirectPostingsFormat
Off-heap memory with sun.misc.Unsafe?
Try G1 again
Try C4 again
Resources
gchandbook.org
github.com/pingtimeout/jvm-options
Read the JVM Source(Not as scary as it sounds.)
hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7
Mechanical Sympathy Google Group
bit.ly/mechsym