[jboss-user] [Clustering/JBoss] - FD, replication timeouts, and shunning

quinine do-not-reply at jboss.com
Tue Jul 10 18:02:34 EDT 2007


The short version of this question is: I have two nodes, A & B, with TreeCache hibernate 2nd-level cache replication.  Node B will have several GCs during the day that make it unresponsive for minutes at a time.  During these, Node A throws ReplicationExceptions.  I want to set my jbosscache/jgroups configuration to enable node A to withstand these GC events on node B, either by temporarily shunning or by having appropriate timeouts, or some combination of both.

Long Version:

I have inherited a jboss cluster.  I have been doing a great deal of reading, I have gone through the jgroups, jbosscache, & hibernate jbosscache wikis here on jboss.org.

We have 2 nodes , A & B, in a cluster.  Both are running:

JBoss 4.0.5 
JBossCache 1.4.1.SP3
JGroups 2.4.1-SP1.


The jboss-config.xml for the hibernate treecache (identical on both):


  | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  | <server>
  |     <mbean code="org.jboss.cache.TreeCache"
  |         name="jboss.cache:service=HibernateTreeCache">
  | 
  |         <depends>jboss:service=Naming</depends>
  |         <depends>jboss:service=TransactionManager</depends>
  | 
  |         <attribute name="ClusterName">Hibernate-${jboss.partition.name:Cluster}</attribute>
  |         
  |         <attribute name="IsolationLevel">READ_COMMITTED</attribute>
  | 
  |         <attribute name="CacheMode">REPL_SYNC</attribute>
  | 
  | 		<attribute name="UseRegionBasedMarshalling">false</attribute>
  |         
  | 		<attribute name="InactiveOnStartup">false</attribute>
  |           
  |         <attribute name="TransactionManagerLookupClass">org.jboss.cache.BatchModeTransactionManagerLookup</attribute>
  | 
  |         <attribute name="ClusterConfig">
  |            <config>
  |               <TCP bind_addr="${partition.tcphost:HIB3-MISCONFIGURED}" 
  |                   start_port="${partition.tcpport.hib3:HIB3-MISCONFIGURED}" loopback="false"
  |                    tcp_nodelay="false" up_thread="false" down_thread="false"/>
  |               <TCPPING initial_hosts="${partition.tcphosts.hib3:HIB3-MISCONFIGURED}"
  |                 port_range="3" timeout="3500"
  |                  num_initial_members="3" up_thread="false" down_thread="false"/>
  |               <MERGE2 min_interval="20000" max_interval="100000"
  |                  down_thread="false" up_thread="false"/>
  |               <FD_SOCK down_thread="false" up_thread="false"/>
  |               <FD shun="true" down_thread="false" up_thread="false"
  |                  timeout="20000" max_tries="5"/>
  |               <VERIFY_SUSPECT timeout="1500" down_thread="false" up_thread="false"/>
  |               <pbcast.NAKACK up_thread="false" down_thread="false" gc_lag="100"
  |                  retransmit_timeout="60000"/>
  |               <pbcast.STABLE desired_avg_gossip="50000" up_thread="false" down_thread="false" />
  |               <pbcast.GMS join_timeout="5000" join_retry_timeout="2000" shun="true"
  |                  print_local_addr="true" down_thread="false" up_thread="false"/>
  |               <pbcast.STATE_TRANSFER up_thread="false" down_thread="false"/>
  |            </config>
  | 
  | 
  |         </attribute>
  | 
  |          <attribute name="FetchInMemoryState">false</attribute>
  |          <attribute name="InitialStateRetrievalTimeout">20000</attribute>
  | 
  |         <attribute name="SyncReplTimeout">20000</attribute>
  | 
  |         <attribute name="LockAcquisitionTimeout">15000</attribute>
  | 
  |         <attribute name="BuddyReplicationConfig">
  |             <config>
  |                 <buddyReplicationEnabled>false</buddyReplicationEnabled>
  |                 <buddyLocatorClass>org.jboss.cache.buddyreplication.NextMemberBuddyLocator</buddyLocatorClass>
  |                 <buddyLocatorProperties>
  |                     numBuddies = 1
  |                     ignoreColocatedBuddies = true
  |                 </buddyLocatorProperties>
  | 
  |                 <buddyPoolName>default</buddyPoolName>
  |                 <buddyCommunicationTimeout>2000</buddyCommunicationTimeout>
  | 
  |                 <autoDataGravitation>false</autoDataGravitation>
  |                 <dataGravitationRemoveOnFind>true</dataGravitationRemoveOnFind>
  |                 <dataGravitationSearchBackupTrees>true</dataGravitationSearchBackupTrees>
  | 
  |             </config>
  |         </attribute>
  | 		   
  |     </mbean>
  | 
  | </server>
  | 

Our cluster-service.xml:

  | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  | 
  | <server>
  | 
  |    <mbean code="org.jboss.ha.framework.server.ClusterPartition"
  |       name="jboss:service=${jboss.partition.name:DefaultPartition}">
  |          
  |       <attribute name="PartitionName">${jboss.partition.name:DefaultPartition}</attribute>
  | 
  |       <attribute name="NodeAddress">${jboss.bind.address}</attribute>
  | 
  |       <attribute name="DeadlockDetection">False</attribute>
  |      
  |       <attribute name="StateTransferTimeout">30000</attribute>
  | 
  |       <attribute name="PartitionConfig">
  |          <Config>
  |             <TCP bind_addr="${partition.tcphost:CLUSTERCONFIG-MISCONFIGURED}" start_port="${partition.tcpport.cluster:CLUSTERCONFIG-MISCONFIGURED}" loopback="false"
  |                  recv_buf_size="2000000" send_buf_size="640000"
  |                  tcp_nodelay="true" up_thread="true" down_thread="true"/>
  |             <TCPPING initial_hosts="${partition.tcphosts.cluster:CLUSTERCONFIG-MISCONFIGURED}"
  |                 port_range="3" timeout="3500"
  |                num_initial_members="3" up_thread="true" down_thread="true"/>
  |             <MERGE2 min_interval="10000" max_interval="20000" />
  |             <FD_SOCK down_thread="true" up_thread="true"/>
  |             <FD shun="true" up_thread="true" down_thread="true"
  |                timeout="10000" max_tries="5"/>
  |             <VERIFY_SUSPECT timeout="3000" down_thread="true" up_thread="true" />
  |             <pbcast.NAKACK up_thread="true" down_thread="true" gc_lag="100"
  |                retransmit_timeout="300,600,1200,2400,4800"/>
  |             <pbcast.STABLE desired_avg_gossip="20000" max_bytes="400000"
  |                down_thread="true" up_thread="true" />
  |             <pbcast.GMS join_timeout="5000" join_retry_timeout="2000" shun="true"
  |                print_local_addr="true"  up_thread="true" down_thread="true"/>
  |             <FC max_credits="2000000" down_thread="true" up_thread="true"
  |                  min_threshold="0.10"/>
  |             <FRAG2 frag_size="60000" down_thread="true" up_thread="true"/>
  |             <pbcast.STATE_TRANSFER up_thread="true" down_thread="true"/>
  |          </Config>
  |       </attribute>
  |       <depends>jboss:service=Naming</depends>
  |    </mbean>
  | 
  | 
  |    <mbean code="org.jboss.ha.hasessionstate.server.HASessionStateService"
  |       name="jboss:service=HASessionState">
  |       <depends>jboss:service=Naming</depends>
  |       <!-- We now inject the partition into the HAJNDI service instead
  |            of requiring that the partition name be passed -->
  |       <depends optional-attribute-name="ClusterPartition"
  |          proxy-type="attribute">jboss:service=${jboss.partition.name:DefaultPartition}</depends>
  |       <!-- JNDI name under which the service is bound -->
  |       <attribute name="JndiName">/HASessionState/Default</attribute>
  |       <!-- Max delay before cleaning unreclaimed state.
  |            Defaults to 30*60*1000 => 30 minutes -->
  |       <attribute name="BeanCleaningDelay">0</attribute>
  |    </mbean>
  | 
  |    <mbean code="org.jboss.ha.jndi.HANamingService"
  |       name="jboss:service=HAJNDI">
  |       <!-- We now inject the partition into the HAJNDI service instead
  |            of requiring that the partition name be passed -->
  |       <depends optional-attribute-name="ClusterPartition"
  |          proxy-type="attribute">jboss:service=${jboss.partition.name:DefaultPartition}</depends>
  |       <!-- Bind address of bootstrap and HA-JNDI RMI endpoints -->
  |       <attribute name="BindAddress">${jboss.bind.address}</attribute>
  |       <!-- Port on which the HA-JNDI stub is made available -->
  |       <attribute name="Port">1100</attribute>
  |       <!-- RmiPort to be used by the HA-JNDI service once bound. 0 => auto. -->
  |       <attribute name="RmiPort">1101</attribute>
  |       <!-- Accept backlog of the bootstrap socket -->
  |       <attribute name="Backlog">50</attribute>
  |       <!-- The thread pool service used to control the bootstrap and
  |       auto discovery lookups -->
  |       <depends optional-attribute-name="LookupPool"
  |          proxy-type="attribute">jboss.system:service=ThreadPool</depends>
  | 
  |       <!-- A flag to disable the auto discovery via multicast -->
  |       <attribute name="DiscoveryDisabled">false</attribute>
  |       <!-- Set the auto-discovery bootstrap multicast bind address. If not 
  |       specified and a BindAddress is specified, the BindAddress will be used. -->
  |       <attribute name="AutoDiscoveryBindAddress">${jboss.bind.address}</attribute>
  |       <!-- Multicast Address and group port used for auto-discovery -->
  |       <attribute name="AutoDiscoveryAddress">${jboss.partition.udpGroup:230.0.0.4}</attribute>
  |       <attribute name="AutoDiscoveryGroup">1102</attribute>
  |       <!-- The TTL (time-to-live) for autodiscovery IP multicast packets -->
  |       <attribute name="AutoDiscoveryTTL">16</attribute>
  |       <!-- The load balancing policy for HA-JNDI -->
  |       <attribute name="LoadBalancePolicy">org.jboss.ha.framework.interfaces.RoundRobin</attribute>
  |       
  |       <!-- Client socket factory to be used for client-server
  |            RMI invocations during JNDI queries
  |       <attribute name="ClientSocketFactory">custom</attribute>
  |       -->
  |       <!-- Server socket factory to be used for client-server
  |            RMI invocations during JNDI queries
  |       <attribute name="ServerSocketFactory">custom</attribute>
  |       -->
  |    </mbean>
  | 
  |    <mbean code="org.jboss.invocation.jrmp.server.JRMPInvokerHA"
  |       name="jboss:service=invoker,type=jrmpha">
  |       <attribute name="ServerAddress">${jboss.bind.address}</attribute>
  |       <attribute name="RMIObjectPort">4447</attribute>
  |       <!--
  |       <attribute name="RMIClientSocketFactory">custom</attribute>
  |       <attribute name="RMIServerSocketFactory">custom</attribute>
  |       -->
  |       <depends>jboss:service=Naming</depends>
  |    </mbean>
  | 
  |    <!-- the JRMPInvokerHA creates a thread per request.  This implementation uses a pool of threads -->
  |    <mbean code="org.jboss.invocation.pooled.server.PooledInvokerHA"
  |       name="jboss:service=invoker,type=pooledha">
  |       <attribute name="NumAcceptThreads">1</attribute>
  |       <attribute name="MaxPoolSize">300</attribute>
  |       <attribute name="ClientMaxPoolSize">300</attribute>
  |       <attribute name="SocketTimeout">60000</attribute>
  |       <attribute name="ServerBindAddress">${jboss.bind.address}</attribute>
  |       <attribute name="ServerBindPort">4446</attribute>
  |       <attribute name="ClientConnectAddress">${jboss.bind.address}</attribute>
  |       <attribute name="ClientConnectPort">0</attribute>
  |       <attribute name="EnableTcpNoDelay">false</attribute>
  |       <depends optional-attribute-name="TransactionManagerService">jboss:service=TransactionManager</depends>
  |       <depends>jboss:service=Naming</depends>
  |    </mbean>
  | 
  |    <mbean code="org.jboss.cache.invalidation.bridges.JGCacheInvalidationBridge"
  |       name="jboss.cache:service=InvalidationBridge,type=JavaGroups">
  |       <!-- We now inject the partition into the HAJNDI service instead
  |            of requiring that the partition name be passed -->
  |       <depends optional-attribute-name="ClusterPartition"
  |          proxy-type="attribute">jboss:service=${jboss.partition.name:DefaultPartition}</depends>
  |       <depends>jboss.cache:service=InvalidationManager</depends>
  |       <attribute name="InvalidationManager">jboss.cache:service=InvalidationManager</attribute>
  |       <attribute name="BridgeName">DefaultJGBridge</attribute>
  |    </mbean>
  | 
  | </server>
  | 

We occasionally get ReplicationExceptions on A, and we have been able to verify that these occur during long (up to 4-5 minutes) GCs on B, where the jvm becomes unresponsive.  

As I read the config snippets above, node A will not shun until it doesn't receive a heartbeat for at least (20x5 + 1.5) = 101.5 seconds, but the replication timeout is 20 seconds.  

So my questions are - 

1) If I change the config so A will shun B before SyncReplTimeout, will this prevent replication during the time where B is unresponsive (hence preventing the ReplicationExceptions)?
2) I then am expecting B to be shunned somewhate regularly, but I always want B to be able to rejoin the cluster when it becomes responsive again.  From what I'm reading, this means setting shun=false.  Without shunning, how do I prevent replication to the unresponsive node B?
3) Are there further caveats that I need to consider?  Will I need to make similar timeout/config changes to the cluster-config.xml?

Thank you very much for your time.

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