Memory leak in NioClientSocketChannel?

Hi,

Our application was running out of memory and I was investigating the
issue. It tourned out that elasticsearch was keeping over 600
Megabytes (4 of them > 100 MB) of NioClientSocketChannel instances,
which aren't cleaned by the GC.

I analyzed the heap in MAT but coultdn't find any referenced data (see
screenshot).Is this due to a NIO buffer which isn't read out
completely and is kept in memory? strvalConnected is also set to
false, thus the memory should get reclaimed.

I'm using 0.16-4 Snapshot with the gc native leak patch applied. Any
ideas what might cause this?

Thanks,
Thibaut

Can you dig down a bit more and see where its being used?

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Thibaut Britz <
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com> wrote:

Hi,

Our application was running out of memory and I was investigating the
issue. It tourned out that elasticsearch was keeping over 600
Megabytes (4 of them > 100 MB) of NioClientSocketChannel instances,
which aren't cleaned by the GC.

I analyzed the heap in MAT but coultdn't find any referenced data (see
screenshot).Is this due to a NIO buffer which isn't read out
completely and is kept in memory? strvalConnected is also set to
false, thus the memory should get reclaimed.

I'm using 0.16-4 Snapshot with the gc native leak patch applied. Any
ideas what might cause this?

Thanks,
Thibaut

Hi,

the data is being kept in the buffer array of the
BigEndianHeapChannelBuffer instances in jetty (see screenshot).

at
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.buffer.BigEndianHeapChannelBuffer
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.buffer.DynamicChannelBuffer
org.elasticsearch.transport.netty.SizeHeaderFrameDecoder
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$DefaultChannelHandlerContext
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline

Thanks,
Thibaut

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

Can you dig down a bit more and see where its being used?

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Thibaut Britz
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com wrote:

Hi,

Our application was running out of memory and I was investigating the
issue. It tourned out that elasticsearch was keeping over 600
Megabytes (4 of them > 100 MB) of NioClientSocketChannel instances,
which aren't cleaned by the GC.

I analyzed the heap in MAT but coultdn't find any referenced data (see
screenshot).Is this due to a NIO buffer which isn't read out
completely and is kept in memory? strvalConnected is also set to
false, thus the memory should get reclaimed.

I'm using 0.16-4 Snapshot with the gc native leak patch applied. Any
ideas what might cause this?

Thanks,
Thibaut

Are you sending large messages around? For example, large bulk requests,
asking for a very large number of hits in one request?

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Thibaut Britz <
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com> wrote:

Hi,

the data is being kept in the buffer array of the
BigEndianHeapChannelBuffer instances in jetty (see screenshot).

at
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.buffer.BigEndianHeapChannelBuffer
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.buffer.DynamicChannelBuffer
org.elasticsearch.transport.netty.SizeHeaderFrameDecoder

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$DefaultChannelHandlerContext
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline

Thanks,
Thibaut

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

Can you dig down a bit more and see where its being used?

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Thibaut Britz
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com wrote:

Hi,

Our application was running out of memory and I was investigating the
issue. It tourned out that elasticsearch was keeping over 600
Megabytes (4 of them > 100 MB) of NioClientSocketChannel instances,
which aren't cleaned by the GC.

I analyzed the heap in MAT but coultdn't find any referenced data (see
screenshot).Is this due to a NIO buffer which isn't read out
completely and is kept in memory? strvalConnected is also set to
false, thus the memory should get reclaimed.

I'm using 0.16-4 Snapshot with the gc native leak patch applied. Any
ideas what might cause this?

Thanks,
Thibaut

Hi,

I'm scrolling over a scan:

SearchRequestBuilder srb =
searchclient.getClient().prepareSearch(indexnames.toArray(new
String[0])).setSearchType(SearchType.SCAN).setScroll("10m");

I only requested the keys, but just saw that I was requesting 10000
hits per shard. I have over > 50 shards, but not all of them return
results. But I assume I got about 200000 results per scroll. I limited
that.

Changing the cached Pool to a thread pool which releases the threads
after a few seconds should fix this?

Thanks,
Thibaut

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

Are you sending large messages around? For example, large bulk requests,
asking for a very large number of hits in one request?

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Thibaut Britz
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com wrote:

Hi,

the data is being kept in the buffer array of the
BigEndianHeapChannelBuffer instances in jetty (see screenshot).

at
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.buffer.BigEndianHeapChannelBuffer
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.buffer.DynamicChannelBuffer
org.elasticsearch.transport.netty.SizeHeaderFrameDecoder

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$DefaultChannelHandlerContext
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline

Thanks,
Thibaut

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

Can you dig down a bit more and see where its being used?

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Thibaut Britz
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com wrote:

Hi,

Our application was running out of memory and I was investigating the
issue. It tourned out that elasticsearch was keeping over 600
Megabytes (4 of them > 100 MB) of NioClientSocketChannel instances,
which aren't cleaned by the GC.

I analyzed the heap in MAT but coultdn't find any referenced data (see
screenshot).Is this due to a NIO buffer which isn't read out
completely and is kept in memory? strvalConnected is also set to
false, thus the memory should get reclaimed.

I'm using 0.16-4 Snapshot with the gc native leak patch applied. Any
ideas what might cause this?

Thanks,
Thibaut

Heya,

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Thibaut Britz <
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com> wrote:

Hi,

I'm scrolling over a scan:

SearchRequestBuilder srb =
searchclient.getClient().prepareSearch(indexnames.toArray(new
String[0])).setSearchType(SearchType.SCAN).setScroll("10m");

I only requested the keys, but just saw that I was requesting 10000
hits per shard. I have over > 50 shards, but not all of them return
results. But I assume I got about 200000 results per scroll. I limited
that.

Changing the cached Pool to a thread pool which releases the threads
after a few seconds should fix this?

No, thats not how netty works..., started a discussion with Trustin to see
if we can improve on it.

Thanks,
Thibaut

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

Are you sending large messages around? For example, large bulk requests,
asking for a very large number of hits in one request?

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Thibaut Britz
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com wrote:

Hi,

the data is being kept in the buffer array of the
BigEndianHeapChannelBuffer instances in jetty (see screenshot).

at
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.buffer.BigEndianHeapChannelBuffer
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.buffer.DynamicChannelBuffer
org.elasticsearch.transport.netty.SizeHeaderFrameDecoder

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$DefaultChannelHandlerContext

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline

Thanks,
Thibaut

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

Can you dig down a bit more and see where its being used?

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Thibaut Britz
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com wrote:

Hi,

Our application was running out of memory and I was investigating the
issue. It tourned out that elasticsearch was keeping over 600
Megabytes (4 of them > 100 MB) of NioClientSocketChannel instances,
which aren't cleaned by the GC.

I analyzed the heap in MAT but coultdn't find any referenced data
(see
screenshot).Is this due to a NIO buffer which isn't read out
completely and is kept in memory? strvalConnected is also set to
false, thus the memory should get reclaimed.

I'm using 0.16-4 Snapshot with the gc native leak patch applied. Any
ideas what might cause this?

Thanks,
Thibaut

Ok,

On one node I also observerved over 150 instances of
NioClientSocketChannel, but only at 16 MB each. So getting netty to
reduce the channel buffer afterwards won't work...

I never have more than 10 threads querying in parallel, so I'm a
little suprised that there are more than 150 instances.

Is this related to the scroll window of 5 min? Or maybe to some
errors/timeouts on the search site which won't cause elasticsearch to
close the channel?

Thanks,
Thibaut

150 instances of
"org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel",
loaded by "sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader @ 0x77cc1e800" occupy
732,664,720 (48.63%) bytes.

Biggest instances:

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d23f40 - 16,778,904 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d2c580 - 16,778,904 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d22c08 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d271a8 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d299a8 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d42d48 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797e0c3e0 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797ea3570 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f643a8 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797cdcaf0 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797cdea28 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d00a18 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797e0d098 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f42f48 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f4bad0 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f55cb0 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f56988 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f5a9a0 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f5bf30 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f63d20 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f665c8 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f69b60 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f6b7b0 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f6d0e8 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

Heya,

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Thibaut Britz
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com wrote:

Hi,

I'm scrolling over a scan:

SearchRequestBuilder srb =
searchclient.getClient().prepareSearch(indexnames.toArray(new
String[0])).setSearchType(SearchType.SCAN).setScroll("10m");

I only requested the keys, but just saw that I was requesting 10000
hits per shard. I have over > 50 shards, but not all of them return
results. But I assume I got about 200000 results per scroll. I limited
that.

Changing the cached Pool to a thread pool which releases the threads
after a few seconds should fix this?

No, thats not how netty works..., started a discussion with Trustin to see
if we can improve on it.

Thanks,
Thibaut

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

Are you sending large messages around? For example, large bulk requests,
asking for a very large number of hits in one request?

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Thibaut Britz
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com wrote:

Hi,

the data is being kept in the buffer array of the
BigEndianHeapChannelBuffer instances in jetty (see screenshot).

at
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.buffer.BigEndianHeapChannelBuffer
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.buffer.DynamicChannelBuffer
org.elasticsearch.transport.netty.SizeHeaderFrameDecoder

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$DefaultChannelHandlerContext
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline

Thanks,
Thibaut

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

Can you dig down a bit more and see where its being used?

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Thibaut Britz
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com wrote:

Hi,

Our application was running out of memory and I was investigating
the
issue. It tourned out that elasticsearch was keeping over 600
Megabytes (4 of them > 100 MB) of NioClientSocketChannel instances,
which aren't cleaned by the GC.

I analyzed the heap in MAT but coultdn't find any referenced data
(see
screenshot).Is this due to a NIO buffer which isn't read out
completely and is kept in memory? strvalConnected is also set to
false, thus the memory should get reclaimed.

I'm using 0.16-4 Snapshot with the gc native leak patch applied. Any
ideas what might cause this?

Thanks,
Thibaut

How many clients are you indexing with? Do you have a single Node instance?
How many servers in the cluster?

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Thibaut Britz <
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com> wrote:

Ok,

On one node I also observerved over 150 instances of
NioClientSocketChannel, but only at 16 MB each. So getting netty to
reduce the channel buffer afterwards won't work...

I never have more than 10 threads querying in parallel, so I'm a
little suprised that there are more than 150 instances.

Is this related to the scroll window of 5 min? Or maybe to some
errors/timeouts on the search site which won't cause elasticsearch to
close the channel?

Thanks,
Thibaut

150 instances of
"org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel",
loaded by "sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader @ 0x77cc1e800" occupy
732,664,720 (48.63%) bytes.

Biggest instances:

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d23f40 - 16,778,904 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d2c580 - 16,778,904 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d22c08 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d271a8 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d299a8 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d42d48 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797e0c3e0 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797ea3570 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f643a8 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797cdcaf0 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797cdea28 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d00a18 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797e0d098 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f42f48 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f4bad0 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f55cb0 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f56988 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f5a9a0 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f5bf30 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f63d20 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f665c8 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f69b60 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f6b7b0 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f6d0e8 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

Heya,

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Thibaut Britz
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com wrote:

Hi,

I'm scrolling over a scan:

SearchRequestBuilder srb =
searchclient.getClient().prepareSearch(indexnames.toArray(new
String[0])).setSearchType(SearchType.SCAN).setScroll("10m");

I only requested the keys, but just saw that I was requesting 10000
hits per shard. I have over > 50 shards, but not all of them return
results. But I assume I got about 200000 results per scroll. I limited
that.

Changing the cached Pool to a thread pool which releases the threads
after a few seconds should fix this?

No, thats not how netty works..., started a discussion with Trustin to
see
if we can improve on it.

Thanks,
Thibaut

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

Are you sending large messages around? For example, large bulk
requests,
asking for a very large number of hits in one request?

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Thibaut Britz
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com wrote:

Hi,

the data is being kept in the buffer array of the
BigEndianHeapChannelBuffer instances in jetty (see screenshot).

at
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.buffer.BigEndianHeapChannelBuffer
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.buffer.DynamicChannelBuffer
org.elasticsearch.transport.netty.SizeHeaderFrameDecoder

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$DefaultChannelHandlerContext

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline

Thanks,
Thibaut

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

Can you dig down a bit more and see where its being used?

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Thibaut Britz
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com wrote:

Hi,

Our application was running out of memory and I was investigating
the
issue. It tourned out that elasticsearch was keeping over 600
Megabytes (4 of them > 100 MB) of NioClientSocketChannel
instances,
which aren't cleaned by the GC.

I analyzed the heap in MAT but coultdn't find any referenced data
(see
screenshot).Is this due to a NIO buffer which isn't read out
completely and is kept in memory? strvalConnected is also set to
false, thus the memory should get reclaimed.

I'm using 0.16-4 Snapshot with the gc native leak patch applied.
Any
ideas what might cause this?

Thanks,
Thibaut

All indexing is done through rivers (about 10 in total), this is node
is only querying, not doing any indexing.

40 search servers and I connect to a pool of 15 search servers.

About 100 shards, with one replica each.

It's the same setup as Mechel Conrad described.

Thanks,
Thibaut

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

How many clients are you indexing with? Do you have a single Node instance?
How many servers in the cluster?

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Thibaut Britz
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com wrote:

Ok,

On one node I also observerved over 150 instances of
NioClientSocketChannel, but only at 16 MB each. So getting netty to
reduce the channel buffer afterwards won't work...

I never have more than 10 threads querying in parallel, so I'm a
little suprised that there are more than 150 instances.

Is this related to the scroll window of 5 min? Or maybe to some
errors/timeouts on the search site which won't cause elasticsearch to
close the channel?

Thanks,
Thibaut

150 instances of

"org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel",
loaded by "sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader @ 0x77cc1e800" occupy
732,664,720 (48.63%) bytes.

Biggest instances:

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d23f40 - 16,778,904 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d2c580 - 16,778,904 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d22c08 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d271a8 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d299a8 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d42d48 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797e0c3e0 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797ea3570 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f643a8 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797cdcaf0 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797cdea28 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d00a18 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797e0d098 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f42f48 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f4bad0 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f55cb0 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f56988 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f5a9a0 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f5bf30 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f63d20 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f665c8 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f69b60 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f6b7b0 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f6d0e8 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

Heya,

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Thibaut Britz
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com wrote:

Hi,

I'm scrolling over a scan:

SearchRequestBuilder srb =
searchclient.getClient().prepareSearch(indexnames.toArray(new
String[0])).setSearchType(SearchType.SCAN).setScroll("10m");

I only requested the keys, but just saw that I was requesting 10000
hits per shard. I have over > 50 shards, but not all of them return
results. But I assume I got about 200000 results per scroll. I limited
that.

Changing the cached Pool to a thread pool which releases the threads
after a few seconds should fix this?

No, thats not how netty works..., started a discussion with Trustin to
see
if we can improve on it.

Thanks,
Thibaut

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

Are you sending large messages around? For example, large bulk
requests,
asking for a very large number of hits in one request?

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Thibaut Britz
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com wrote:

Hi,

the data is being kept in the buffer array of the
BigEndianHeapChannelBuffer instances in jetty (see screenshot).

at
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.buffer.BigEndianHeapChannelBuffer
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.buffer.DynamicChannelBuffer
org.elasticsearch.transport.netty.SizeHeaderFrameDecoder

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$DefaultChannelHandlerContext
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline

Thanks,
Thibaut

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

Can you dig down a bit more and see where its being used?

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Thibaut Britz
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com wrote:

Hi,

Our application was running out of memory and I was investigating
the
issue. It tourned out that elasticsearch was keeping over 600
Megabytes (4 of them > 100 MB) of NioClientSocketChannel
instances,
which aren't cleaned by the GC.

I analyzed the heap in MAT but coultdn't find any referenced data
(see
screenshot).Is this due to a NIO buffer which isn't read out
completely and is kept in memory? strvalConnected is also set to
false, thus the memory should get reclaimed.

I'm using 0.16-4 Snapshot with the gc native leak patch applied.
Any
ideas what might cause this?

Thanks,
Thibaut

What do you mean by 15 search servers? Are those basically client nodes? Do
you have one Node instance per "search server"? Internally, nodes creates
several connections between them in order to improve on network throughput,
you can configure that with other values (I don't think its documented, I'll
document that)...

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:14 AM, Thibaut Britz <
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com> wrote:

All indexing is done through rivers (about 10 in total), this is node
is only querying, not doing any indexing.

40 search servers and I connect to a pool of 15 search servers.

About 100 shards, with one replica each.

It's the same setup as Mechel Conrad described.

Thanks,
Thibaut

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

How many clients are you indexing with? Do you have a single Node
instance?
How many servers in the cluster?

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Thibaut Britz
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com wrote:

Ok,

On one node I also observerved over 150 instances of
NioClientSocketChannel, but only at 16 MB each. So getting netty to
reduce the channel buffer afterwards won't work...

I never have more than 10 threads querying in parallel, so I'm a
little suprised that there are more than 150 instances.

Is this related to the scroll window of 5 min? Or maybe to some
errors/timeouts on the search site which won't cause elasticsearch to
close the channel?

Thanks,
Thibaut

150 instances of

"org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel",

loaded by "sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader @ 0x77cc1e800" occupy
732,664,720 (48.63%) bytes.

Biggest instances:

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d23f40 - 16,778,904 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d2c580 - 16,778,904 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d22c08 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d271a8 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d299a8 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d42d48 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797e0c3e0 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797ea3570 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f643a8 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797cdcaf0 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797cdea28 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d00a18 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797e0d098 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f42f48 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f4bad0 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f55cb0 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f56988 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f5a9a0 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f5bf30 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f63d20 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f665c8 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f69b60 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f6b7b0 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f6d0e8 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

Heya,

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Thibaut Britz
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com wrote:

Hi,

I'm scrolling over a scan:

SearchRequestBuilder srb =
searchclient.getClient().prepareSearch(indexnames.toArray(new
String[0])).setSearchType(SearchType.SCAN).setScroll("10m");

I only requested the keys, but just saw that I was requesting 10000
hits per shard. I have over > 50 shards, but not all of them return
results. But I assume I got about 200000 results per scroll. I
limited
that.

Changing the cached Pool to a thread pool which releases the threads
after a few seconds should fix this?

No, thats not how netty works..., started a discussion with Trustin to
see
if we can improve on it.

Thanks,
Thibaut

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

Are you sending large messages around? For example, large bulk
requests,
asking for a very large number of hits in one request?

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Thibaut Britz
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com wrote:

Hi,

the data is being kept in the buffer array of the
BigEndianHeapChannelBuffer instances in jetty (see screenshot).

at
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.buffer.BigEndianHeapChannelBuffer
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.buffer.DynamicChannelBuffer
org.elasticsearch.transport.netty.SizeHeaderFrameDecoder

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$DefaultChannelHandlerContext

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline

Thanks,
Thibaut

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

Can you dig down a bit more and see where its being used?

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Thibaut Britz
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com wrote:

Hi,

Our application was running out of memory and I was
investigating
the
issue. It tourned out that elasticsearch was keeping over 600
Megabytes (4 of them > 100 MB) of NioClientSocketChannel
instances,
which aren't cleaned by the GC.

I analyzed the heap in MAT but coultdn't find any referenced
data
(see
screenshot).Is this due to a NIO buffer which isn't read out
completely and is kept in memory? strvalConnected is also set
to
false, thus the memory should get reclaimed.

I'm using 0.16-4 Snapshot with the gc native leak patch
applied.
Any
ideas what might cause this?

Thanks,
Thibaut

There are 40 dedicated servers running elasticsearch only.

I connect to a pool to 15 of these dedicated search servers in my
application through:

TransportClient c = new
TransportClient(ImmutableSettings.settingsBuilder().put("cluster.name",
clustername));
for (String h : hosts) {
c.addTransportAddress(new InetSocketTransportAddress(h, port));
}

and execute a search.

This probably explains why I have 150 instances. Still, releasing the
buffer after the data has been transfered makes perfectly sense in
this case.

Thibaut

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

What do you mean by 15 search servers? Are those basically client nodes? Do
you have one Node instance per "search server"? Internally, nodes creates
several connections between them in order to improve on network throughput,
you can configure that with other values (I don't think its documented, I'll
document that)...

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:14 AM, Thibaut Britz
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com wrote:

All indexing is done through rivers (about 10 in total), this is node
is only querying, not doing any indexing.

40 search servers and I connect to a pool of 15 search servers.

About 100 shards, with one replica each.

It's the same setup as Mechel Conrad described.

Thanks,
Thibaut

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

How many clients are you indexing with? Do you have a single Node
instance?
How many servers in the cluster?

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Thibaut Britz
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com wrote:

Ok,

On one node I also observerved over 150 instances of
NioClientSocketChannel, but only at 16 MB each. So getting netty to
reduce the channel buffer afterwards won't work...

I never have more than 10 threads querying in parallel, so I'm a
little suprised that there are more than 150 instances.

Is this related to the scroll window of 5 min? Or maybe to some
errors/timeouts on the search site which won't cause elasticsearch to
close the channel?

Thanks,
Thibaut

150 instances of

"org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel",
loaded by "sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader @ 0x77cc1e800" occupy
732,664,720 (48.63%) bytes.

Biggest instances:

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d23f40 - 16,778,904 (1.11%) bytes.

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d2c580 - 16,778,904 (1.11%) bytes.

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d22c08 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d271a8 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d299a8 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d42d48 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797e0c3e0 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797ea3570 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f643a8 - 16,778,856 (1.11%) bytes.

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797cdcaf0 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797cdea28 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797d00a18 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797e0d098 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f42f48 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f4bad0 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f55cb0 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f56988 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f5a9a0 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f5bf30 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f63d20 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f665c8 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f69b60 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f6b7b0 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioClientSocketChannel
@ 0x797f6d0e8 - 16,778,808 (1.11%) bytes.

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

Heya,

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Thibaut Britz
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com wrote:

Hi,

I'm scrolling over a scan:

SearchRequestBuilder srb =
searchclient.getClient().prepareSearch(indexnames.toArray(new
String[0])).setSearchType(SearchType.SCAN).setScroll("10m");

I only requested the keys, but just saw that I was requesting 10000
hits per shard. I have over > 50 shards, but not all of them return
results. But I assume I got about 200000 results per scroll. I
limited
that.

Changing the cached Pool to a thread pool which releases the threads
after a few seconds should fix this?

No, thats not how netty works..., started a discussion with Trustin
to
see
if we can improve on it.

Thanks,
Thibaut

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

Are you sending large messages around? For example, large bulk
requests,
asking for a very large number of hits in one request?

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Thibaut Britz
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com wrote:

Hi,

the data is being kept in the buffer array of the
BigEndianHeapChannelBuffer instances in jetty (see screenshot).

at
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.buffer.BigEndianHeapChannelBuffer
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.buffer.DynamicChannelBuffer
org.elasticsearch.transport.netty.SizeHeaderFrameDecoder

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$DefaultChannelHandlerContext
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline

Thanks,
Thibaut

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

Can you dig down a bit more and see where its being used?

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Thibaut Britz
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com wrote:

Hi,

Our application was running out of memory and I was
investigating
the
issue. It tourned out that elasticsearch was keeping over 600
Megabytes (4 of them > 100 MB) of NioClientSocketChannel
instances,
which aren't cleaned by the GC.

I analyzed the heap in MAT but coultdn't find any referenced
data
(see
screenshot).Is this due to a NIO buffer which isn't read out
completely and is kept in memory? strvalConnected is also set
to
false, thus the memory should get reclaimed.

I'm using 0.16-4 Snapshot with the gc native leak patch
applied.
Any
ideas what might cause this?

Thanks,
Thibaut

Any update on this?

Thanks,
Thibaut

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

Heya,

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Thibaut Britz
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com wrote:

Hi,

I'm scrolling over a scan:

SearchRequestBuilder srb =
searchclient.getClient().prepareSearch(indexnames.toArray(new
String[0])).setSearchType(SearchType.SCAN).setScroll("10m");

I only requested the keys, but just saw that I was requesting 10000
hits per shard. I have over > 50 shards, but not all of them return
results. But I assume I got about 200000 results per scroll. I limited
that.

Changing the cached Pool to a thread pool which releases the threads
after a few seconds should fix this?

No, thats not how netty works..., started a discussion with Trustin to see
if we can improve on it.

Thanks,
Thibaut

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

Are you sending large messages around? For example, large bulk requests,
asking for a very large number of hits in one request?

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Thibaut Britz
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com wrote:

Hi,

the data is being kept in the buffer array of the
BigEndianHeapChannelBuffer instances in jetty (see screenshot).

at
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.buffer.BigEndianHeapChannelBuffer
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.buffer.DynamicChannelBuffer
org.elasticsearch.transport.netty.SizeHeaderFrameDecoder

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$DefaultChannelHandlerContext
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline

Thanks,
Thibaut

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

Can you dig down a bit more and see where its being used?

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Thibaut Britz
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com wrote:

Hi,

Our application was running out of memory and I was investigating
the
issue. It tourned out that elasticsearch was keeping over 600
Megabytes (4 of them > 100 MB) of NioClientSocketChannel instances,
which aren't cleaned by the GC.

I analyzed the heap in MAT but coultdn't find any referenced data
(see
screenshot).Is this due to a NIO buffer which isn't read out
completely and is kept in memory? strvalConnected is also set to
false, thus the memory should get reclaimed.

I'm using 0.16-4 Snapshot with the gc native leak patch applied. Any
ideas what might cause this?

Thanks,
Thibaut

No, no updates...

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Thibaut Britz <
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com> wrote:

Any update on this?

Thanks,
Thibaut

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

Heya,

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Thibaut Britz
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com wrote:

Hi,

I'm scrolling over a scan:

SearchRequestBuilder srb =
searchclient.getClient().prepareSearch(indexnames.toArray(new
String[0])).setSearchType(SearchType.SCAN).setScroll("10m");

I only requested the keys, but just saw that I was requesting 10000
hits per shard. I have over > 50 shards, but not all of them return
results. But I assume I got about 200000 results per scroll. I limited
that.

Changing the cached Pool to a thread pool which releases the threads
after a few seconds should fix this?

No, thats not how netty works..., started a discussion with Trustin to
see
if we can improve on it.

Thanks,
Thibaut

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

Are you sending large messages around? For example, large bulk
requests,
asking for a very large number of hits in one request?

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Thibaut Britz
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com wrote:

Hi,

the data is being kept in the buffer array of the
BigEndianHeapChannelBuffer instances in jetty (see screenshot).

at
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.buffer.BigEndianHeapChannelBuffer
org.elasticsearch.common.netty.buffer.DynamicChannelBuffer
org.elasticsearch.transport.netty.SizeHeaderFrameDecoder

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$DefaultChannelHandlerContext

org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline

Thanks,
Thibaut

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Shay Banon
shay.banon@elasticsearch.com wrote:

Can you dig down a bit more and see where its being used?

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Thibaut Britz
thibaut.britz@trendiction.com wrote:

Hi,

Our application was running out of memory and I was investigating
the
issue. It tourned out that elasticsearch was keeping over 600
Megabytes (4 of them > 100 MB) of NioClientSocketChannel
instances,
which aren't cleaned by the GC.

I analyzed the heap in MAT but coultdn't find any referenced data
(see
screenshot).Is this due to a NIO buffer which isn't read out
completely and is kept in memory? strvalConnected is also set to
false, thus the memory should get reclaimed.

I'm using 0.16-4 Snapshot with the gc native leak patch applied.
Any
ideas what might cause this?

Thanks,
Thibaut