I'm currently trying to deploy a node.js app on docker containers. I need to deploy 30 of them but they begin to have a weird behavior at some point, some of them freeze.
I am currently running Docker version for windows 18.03.0-ce, build 0520e24302, my computer specs (cpu and memory):
I5 4670 K
24 GB of ram
My docker default machine resource allocation is the following :
Allocated RAM : 10 Gb
Allocated vCPUs : 4
My node application is running on apline3.8 and node.js 11.4 and mostly do http requests every 2-3 seconds.
When i try to deploy 20 containers everything is running like a charm, my application do the job and i can see that there is an activity on every on my containers through the logs, activity stats.
The problem comes when i try to deploy more containers, more than 20, i can notice that some of the previously deployed containers start to stop their activities (0% cpu using, logs freezing). When everything is deployed (30 containers), Docker start to block the activity of some of them and unblock them at some point to block some others (blocking/unblocking is random). It seems to be sequential. I tried to wait and see what happened and the result is that some of the containers are able to poursue their activities and some others are stuck forever (still running but no more activity).
It's important to notice that i used the following resources restrictions on each of my containers :
MemoryReservation : 160mb
Memory soft limit : 160mb
NanoCPUs : 250000000 (0.25 cpus)
I had to increase my docker default machine resource allocation and decrease container's ressource allocation because it was using almost 100% of my cpu, maybe i did a mistake in my configuration. I tried to tweak those values, but no success i still have some containers freezing.
I'm kind of lost right know.
Any help would be appreciated even a little one, thank you in advance !
I have a very weird memory issue (which is what a lot of people will most
likely say ;-)) with Spark running in standalone mode inside a Docker
container. Our setup is as follows: We have a Docker container in which we have a Spring boot application that runs Spark in standalone mode. This Spring boot app also contains a few scheduled tasks (managed by Spring). These tasks trigger Spark jobs. The Spark jobs scrape a SQL database, shuffles the data a bit and then writes the results to a different SQL table (writing the results doesn't go through Spark). Our current data set is very small (the table contains a few million rows).
The problem is that the Docker host (a CentOS VM) that runs the Docker
container crashes after a while because the memory gets exhausted. I currently have limited the Spark memory usage to 512M (I have set both executor and driver memory) and in the Spark UI I can see that the largest job only takes about 10 MB of memory. I know that Spark runs best if it has 8GB of memory or more available. I have tried that as well but the results are the same.
After digging a bit further I noticed that Spark eats up all the buffer / cache memory on the machine. After clearing this manually by forcing Linux to drop caches (echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches) (clearing the dentries and inodes) the cache usage drops considerably but if I don't keep doing this regularly I see that the cache usage slowly keeps going up until all memory is used in buffer/cache.
Does anyone have an idea what I might be doing wrong / what is going on here?
Big thanks in advance for any help!
I deployed a Cassandra 2.2 ring composed by 4 nodes in the cloud with 8 vCPU and 8GB of ram. I am running some tests now with cassandra-stress and YCSB tools to test its performance. I am mainly interested in read requests with a small amount of write requests (95%/5%).
Running the experiments, I noticed that even setting a high number of threads (or clients) the CPU (and disk) does not saturate, but still always around the 60% of utilisation.
I am trying to figure out where is the bottleneck in my system. From the hardware point of view it seems all ok to me.
dstat
I also looked into the Cassandra configuration file to see if there are some tuning parameters to increase the system throughput. I increase the value of concurrent_read/write parameter, but it doesn't increase the performance.
The log file also does not contain any warning.
What it could be that is limiting my system?
Thanks
You might want to consider running cassandra-stress from outside the cluster and on multiple instances as described in
Usage of the Cassandra tool cassandra-stress
Elasticseach indexing process gets killed by oom after 200000 documents. I did not find related or anything useful in logs.
I'm using a Ubuntu VM, 5GB ram, two 3.0GH cores.
I tried to disable the swap. Read that ES works poorly when swap is enabled, but no luck. Am I missing some configuration?
/etc/default/elasticsearch
ES_HEAP_SIZE=2g
MAX_OPEN_FILES=65535
MAX_LOCKED_MEMORY=unlimited
I'm running Datastax Enterprise in a cluster consisting of 3 nodes. They are all running under the same hardware: 2 Core Intel Xeon 2.2 Ghz, 7 GB RAM, 4 TB Raid-0
This should be enough for running a cluster with a light load, storing less than 1 GB of data.
Most of the time, everything is just fine but it appears that sometimes the running tasks related to the Repair Service in OpsCenter sometimes get stuck; this causes an instability in that node and an increase in load.
However, if the node is restarted, the stuck tasks don't show up and the load is at normal levels again.
Because of the fact that we don't have much data in our cluster we're using the min_repair_time parameter defined in opscenterd.conf to delay the repair service so that it doesn't complete too often.
It really seems a little bit weird that the tasks that says that are marked as "Complete" and are showing a progress of 100% don't go away, and yes, we've waited hours for them to go away but they won't; the only way that we've found to solve this is to restart the nodes.
Edit:
Here's the output from nodetool compactionstats
Edit 2:
I'm running under Datastax Enterprise v. 4.6.0 with Cassandra v. 2.0.11.83
Edit 3:
This is output from dstat on a node that behaving normally
This is output from dstat on a node with stucked compaction
Edit 4:
Output from iostat on node with stucked compaction, see the high "iowait"
azure storage
Azure divides disk resources among storage accounts under an individual user account. There can be many storage accounts in an individual user account.
For the purposes of running DSE [or cassandra], it is important to note that a single storage account should not should not be shared between more than two nodes if DSE [or cassandra] is configured like the examples in the scripts in this document. This document configures each node to have 16 disks. Each disk has a limit of 500 IOPS. This yields 8000 IOPS when configured in RAID-0. So, two nodes will hit 16,000 IOPS and three would exceed the limit.
See details here
So, this has been an issue that have been under investigation for a long time now and we've found a solution, however, we aren't sure what the underlaying problem that were causing the issues were but we got a clue even tho that, nothing can be confirmed.
Basically what we did was setting up a RAID-0 also known as Striping consisting of four disks, each at 1 TB of size. We should have seen somewhere 4x one disks IOPS when using the Stripe, but we didn't, so something was clearly wrong with the setup of the RAID.
We used multiple utilities to confirm that the CPU were waiting for the IO to respond most of the time when we said to ourselves that the node was "stucked". Clearly something with the IO and most probably our RAID-setup was causing this. We tried a few differences within MDADM-settings etc, but didn't manage to solve the problems using the RAID-setup.
We started investigating Azure Premium Storage (which still is in preview). This enables attaching disks to VMs whose underlaying physical storage actually are SSDs. So we said, well, SSDs => more IOPS, so let us give this a try. We did not setup any RAID using the SSDs. We are only using one single SSD-disk per VM.
We've been running the Cluster for almost 3 days now and we've stress tested it a lot but haven't been able to reproduce the issues.
I guess we didn't came down to the real cause but the conclusion is that some of the following must have been the underlaying cause for our problems.
Too slow disks (writes > IOPS)
RAID was setup incorrectly which caused the disks to function non-normally
These two problems go hand-in-hand and most likely is that we basically just was setting up the disks in the wrong way. However, SSDs = more power to the people, so we will definitely continue using SSDs.
If someone experience the same problems that we had on Azure with RAID-0 on large disks, don't hesitate to add to here.
Part of the problem you have is that you do not have a lot of memory on those systems and it is likely that even with only 1GB of data per node, your nodes are experiencing GC pressure. Check in the system.log for errors and warnings as this will provide clues as to what is happening on your cluster.
The rollups_60 table in the OpsCenter schema contains the lowest (minute level) granularity time series data for all your Cassandra, OS, and DSE metrics. These metrics are collected regardless of whether you have built charts for them in your dashboard so that you can pick up historical views when needed. It may be that this table is outgrowing your small hardware.
You can try tuning OpsCenter to avoid this kind of issues. Here are some options for configuration in your opscenterd.conf file:
Adding keyspaces (for example the opsc keyspace) to your ignored_keyspaces setting
You can also decrease the TTL on this table by tuning the 1min_ttlsetting
Sources:
Opscenter Config DataStax docs
Metrics Config DataStax Docs