[undertow-dev] Too many open files: Exception accepting request, closing server channel TCP server (NIO)

Nishant Kumar nishantkumar35 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 12 04:07:27 EDT 2020


I have also observed that the CPU load increases significantly on
3.7.7-Final (load average 50 on 48 core machine) on moderate load but it's
very low (load average 20) on 3.3.8-Final on the same QPS (20k Req/sec) and
it (3.7.7-Final) starts refusing connection on high load.

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 7:20 AM Nishant Kumar <nishantkumar35 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I didn't get time to write standalone program to reproduce it but with new
> version 3.7.7-Final, i am not able to survive for more than an hour. With
> the older default xnio version of Undertow (xnio 3.3.8-Final) i can run
> server for few days until it stops working with error i mentioned in first
> email.
>
> Just FYI, i am using OpenJDK 11 with OpenJ9 JVM.
>
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2020, 10:54 AM Flavia Rainone <frainone at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Can someone provide a reproducer for this error?
>>
>> As for the old version of XNIO, it will be upgraded in Undertow
>> 2.1.0.Final.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 8:47 PM Stuart Douglas <sdouglas at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hmm, maybe this is a bug in the HTTP/2 close code then, and somehow the
>>> connection is not being closed if the client hangs up abruptly. I had a
>>> quick look at the code though and I think it looks ok, but maybe some more
>>> investigation is needed.
>>>
>>> Stuart
>>>
>>> On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 at 03:41, Nishant Kumar <nishantkumar35 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes, i have no control on client side. I am using HTTP2. I have tried
>>>> increasing open file limit to 400k but that consumes all memory and system
>>>> hangs. I will probably try to put a nginx in front of Undertow and test.
>>>>
>>>> setServerOption(UndertowOptions.ENABLE_HTTP2, true)
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2020, 7:48 PM David Lloyd <david.lloyd at redhat.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 7:56 AM Stan Rosenberg <stan.rosenberg at acm.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Stuck in CLOSE_WAIT is a symptom of the client-side not properly
>>>>> shutting down [1].
>>>>>
>>>>> I would partially disagree.  In the article you linked: "It all starts
>>>>> with a listening application that leaks sockets and forgets to call
>>>>> close(). This kind of bug does happen in complex applications."  This
>>>>> seems to be essentially what's happening here: the server isn't
>>>>> completing the connection (for some reason), stranding the socket in
>>>>> `CLOSE_WAIT`.
>>>>>
>>>>> We can't assume that the client is abandoning the connection after
>>>>> `FIN_WAIT2` (the titular RFC violation); if the server stays in
>>>>> `CLOSE_WAIT`, then even if the client dutifully stays in `FIN_WAIT2`
>>>>> forever, the resolving condition still needs to be that the server
>>>>> shuts down its side of the connection.
>>>>>
>>>>> This diagram is a useful visual aid, mapping TCP states to the XNIO
>>>>> API:
>>>>> https://www.lucidchart.com/publicSegments/view/524ec20a-5c40-4fd0-8bde-0a1c0a0046e1/image.png
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> - DML
>>>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Flavia Rainone
>>
>> Principal Software Engineer
>>
>> Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com>
>>
>> frainone at redhat.com
>> <https://www.redhat.com>
>>
>

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Email: nishantkumar35 at gmail.com
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