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Re: File Descriptors leaking

From: Oleksiy Stashok <oleksiy.stashok_at_oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 10:55:25 +0200

Hi,

can you pls. try GF version 3.1.2.2?
Also, if it's possible, pls. attach GF domain.xml.

Thanks.

WBR,
Alexey.

On 09/10/2012 10:45 AM, Lachezar Dobrev wrote:
> Hello all...
> I have received no responses on this problem.
>
> I am still having this issue once or twice a week.
>
> After a number of searches in the past weeks I've gained little in
> terms of understanding what happens.
>
> In my search I found out a defect report against Oracle's JVM, that
> might be connected to the issue:
>
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7118373
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=2223521
>
> I also came up with a mention in some blog:
>
> http://blog.fuseyism.com/index.php/category/openjdk/
> (sorry, could not come up with a more legit source).
>
> From the blog post I can see, that the mentioned defect is noted in
> 'Release 2.3.0 (2012-08-15)', which is a funny two days after my post.
> May I have your comments? Does this sound like a OpenJDK defect? Is it
> possible that it has been fixed in the meantime? From the looks on my
> machine it seems it still uses OpenJDK 2.1.1 (openjdk-7-jdk
> 7~u3-2.1.1~pre1-1ubuntu3).
>
> Please advise!
>
> 2012/8/29 Lachezar Dobrev <l.dobrev_at_gmail.com>:
>> Hello colleagues,
>>
>> Recently we switched from Tomcat to Glassfish.
>> However I noticed, that at certain point (unknown as of yet) the
>> Glassfish server stops responding. I can't even stop it correctly
>> (asadmin stop-domain hangs!).
>>
>> - Ubuntu Server - 12.04 (precise)
>> - Intel Xeon (x64 arch)
>> - java version "1.7.0_03"
>> - OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 22.0-b10, mixed mode)
>> - Glassfish 3.1.2 (no upgrades pending)
>>
>> The server serves via a JK Connector with a façade Apache server using mod_jk.
>>
>> The server runs only three applications (and the admin interface).
>> All applications use Spring Framework. One uses JPA to a PostgreSQL on
>> the local host, one uses an ObjectDB JPA, two use JDBC pool
>> connections to a remote Microsoft SQL Server.
>>
>> The culprit seems to be some kind of File Descriptor leak.
>> Initially the server died within a day or two. I had to increase the
>> open files limit (s1024/h4096) to (s65536/h65536) thinking this may be
>> just because too many files need to be opened. However that just
>> postponed the server death to about one week uptime.
>>
>> I was able to make some checks at the latest crash, since I was
>> awake in 3AM. What I found out was that there were an unbelievable
>> number of lost (unclosed) pipes:
>>
>>> java 30142 glassfish 467r FIFO 0,8 0t0 4659245 pipe
>>> java 30142 glassfish 468w FIFO 0,8 0t0 4659245 pipe
>>> java 30142 glassfish 469u 0000 0,9 0 6821 anon_inode
>>> java 30142 glassfish 487r FIFO 0,8 0t0 4676297 pipe
>>> java 30142 glassfish 488w FIFO 0,8 0t0 4676297 pipe
>>> java 30142 glassfish 489u 0000 0,9 0 6821 anon_inode
>> The logs show a very long quiet period, just before the failure the
>> log shows a normal log line from the actual server working (one of the
>> applications).
>> Then the log rolls and starts rolling every second. The failures
>> start with (attached error_one.txt)
>>
>> The only line that has been obfuscated is the one with .... in it.
>> The com.planetj... is a filter used to implement gzip compression
>> (input and output) since I could not find how to configure that in
>> Glassfish.
>> The org.springframework... is obviously the Spring Framework.
>>
>> The log has an enormous amount (2835 for 19 seconds) of those
>> messages. The messages are logged from within the same thread (same
>> _ThreadID and _ThreadName), which leads me to believe all messages are
>> a result of the processing of a single request.
>> Afterwards the server begins dumping a lot of messages like
>> (attached error_two.txt).
>> The server is effectively blocked from that time on.
>>
>> At that point lsof shows 64K open files from Glassfish, the enormous
>> majority being open popes (three descriptors each).
>>
>> I am at a loss here... The server currently needs either a periodic
>> restart, or I need to 'kill' it when it blocks.
>>
>> I've been digging for this error around the Internet, and the
>> closest I've seen has been due to not closing (leaking) Selectors.
>> Please advise!