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Re: Upload a large file without oom with Grizzly

From: Sébastien Lorber <lorber.sebastien_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 21:39:55 +0200

I have seen a lot of buffers which have a size of 33842 and it seems the
limit is near half the capacity.

Perhaps there's a way to tune that buffer size so that it consumes less
memory?
Is there an ideal Buffer size to send to the feed method?


2013/8/28 Ryan Lubke <ryan.lubke_at_oracle.com>

> I'll be reviewing the PR today, thanks again!
>
> Regarding the OOM: as it stands now, for each new buffer that is passed to
> the SSLFilter, we allocate a buffer twice the size in order to
> accommodate the encrypted result. So there's an increase.
>
> Depending on the socket configurations of both endpoints, and how fast the
> remote is reading data, it could
> be the write queue is becoming too large. We do have a way to detect
> this situation, but I'm pretty sure
> the Grizzly internals are currently shielded here. I will see what I can
> do to allow users to leverage this.
>
>
>
>
> Sébastien Lorber wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I've made my pull request.
> https://github.com/AsyncHttpClient/async-http-client/pull/367
>
> With my usecase it works, the file is uploaded like before.
>
>
>
> But I didn't notice a big memory improvement.
>
> Is it possible that SSL doesn't allow to stream the body or something like
> that?
>
>
>
> In memory, I have a lot of:
> - HeapByteBuffer
> Which are hold by SSLUtils$3
> Which are hold by BufferBuffers
> Which are hold by WriteResult
> Which are hold by AsyncWriteQueueRecord
>
>
> Here is an exemple of the OOM stacktrace:
>
> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
> at java.nio.HeapByteBuffer.<init>(HeapByteBuffer.java:57)
> at java.nio.ByteBuffer.allocate(ByteBuffer.java:331)
> at
> org.glassfish.grizzly.ssl.SSLUtils.allocateOutputBuffer(SSLUtils.java:342)
> at org.glassfish.grizzly.ssl.SSLBaseFilter$2.grow(SSLBaseFilter.java:117)
> at
> org.glassfish.grizzly.ssl.SSLConnectionContext.ensureBufferSize(SSLConnectionContext.java:392)
> at
> org.glassfish.grizzly.ssl.SSLConnectionContext.wrap(SSLConnectionContext.java:272)
> at
> org.glassfish.grizzly.ssl.SSLConnectionContext.wrapAll(SSLConnectionContext.java:227)
> at
> org.glassfish.grizzly.ssl.SSLBaseFilter.wrapAll(SSLBaseFilter.java:404)
> at
> org.glassfish.grizzly.ssl.SSLBaseFilter.handleWrite(SSLBaseFilter.java:319)
> at org.glassfish.grizzly.ssl.SSLFilter.accurateWrite(SSLFilter.java:255)
> at org.glassfish.grizzly.ssl.SSLFilter.handleWrite(SSLFilter.java:143)
> at
> com.ning.http.client.providers.grizzly.GrizzlyAsyncHttpProvider$SwitchingSSLFilter.handleWrite(GrizzlyAsyncHttpProvider.java:2503)
> at
> org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.ExecutorResolver$8.execute(ExecutorResolver.java:111)
> at
> org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.executeFilter(DefaultFilterChain.java:288)
> at
> org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.executeChainPart(DefaultFilterChain.java:206)
> at
> org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.execute(DefaultFilterChain.java:136)
> at
> org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.DefaultFilterChain.process(DefaultFilterChain.java:114)
> at
> org.glassfish.grizzly.ProcessorExecutor.execute(ProcessorExecutor.java:77)
> at
> org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.FilterChainContext.write(FilterChainContext.java:853)
> at
> org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.FilterChainContext.write(FilterChainContext.java:720)
> at
> com.ning.http.client.providers.grizzly.FeedableBodyGenerator.flushQueue(FeedableBodyGenerator.java:132)
> at
> com.ning.http.client.providers.grizzly.FeedableBodyGenerator.feed(FeedableBodyGenerator.java:101)
> at
> com.ning.http.client.providers.grizzly.MultipartBodyGeneratorFeeder$FeedBodyGeneratorOutputStream.write(MultipartBodyGeneratorFeeder.java:222)
> at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flushBuffer(BufferedOutputStream.java:82)
> at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.write(BufferedOutputStream.java:126)
> at com.ning.http.multipart.FilePart.sendData(FilePart.java:179)
> at com.ning.http.multipart.Part.send(Part.java:331)
> at com.ning.http.multipart.Part.sendParts(Part.java:397)
> at
> com.ning.http.client.providers.grizzly.MultipartBodyGeneratorFeeder.feed(MultipartBodyGeneratorFeeder.java:144)
>
>
>
>
> Any idea?
>
>
>
> 2013/8/27 Ryan Lubke <ryan.lubke_at_oracle.com>
>
>> Excellent! Looking forward to the pull request!
>>
>>
>> Sébastien Lorber wrote:
>>
>> Ryan thanks, it works fine, I'll make a pull request on AHC tomorrow with
>> a better code using the same Part classes that already exist.
>>
>> I created an OutputStream that redirects to the BodyGenerator feeder.
>>
>> The problem I currently have is that the feeder feeds the queue faster
>> than the async thread polling it :)
>> I need to expose a limit to that queue size or something, will work on
>> that, it will be better than a thread sleep to slow down the filepart
>> reading
>>
>>
>> 2013/8/27 Ryan Lubke <ryan.lubke_at_oracle.com>
>>
>>> Yes, something like that. I was going to tackle adding something like
>>> this today. I'll follow up with something you can test out.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sébastien Lorber wrote:
>>>
>>> Ok thanks!
>>>
>>> I think I see what I could do, probably something like that:
>>>
>>>
>>> FeedableBodyGenerator bodyGenerator = new FeedableBodyGenerator();
>>> MultipartBodyGeneratorFeeder bodyGeneratorFeeder = new
>>> MultipartBodyGeneratorFeeder(bodyGenerator);
>>> Request uploadRequest1 = new RequestBuilder("POST")
>>> .setUrl("url")
>>> .setBody(bodyGenerator)
>>> .build();
>>>
>>> ListenableFuture<Response> asyncRes = asyncHttpClient
>>> .prepareRequest(uploadRequest1)
>>> .execute(new AsyncCompletionHandlerBase());
>>>
>>>
>>> bodyGeneratorFeeder.append("param1","value1");
>>> bodyGeneratorFeeder.append("param2","value2");
>>> bodyGeneratorFeeder.append("fileToUpload",fileInputStream);
>>> bodyGeneratorFeeder.end();
>>>
>>> Response uploadResponse = asyncRes.get();
>>>
>>>
>>> Does it seem ok to you?
>>>
>>> I guess it could be interesting to provide that
>>> MultipartBodyGeneratorFeeder class to AHC or Grizzly since some other
>>> people may want to achieve the same thing
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2013/8/26 Ryan Lubke <ryan.lubke_at_oracle.com>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sébastien Lorber wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to know if it's possible to upload a file with AHC /
>>>>> Grizzly in streaming, I mean without loading the whole file bytes in memory.
>>>>>
>>>>> The default behavior seems to allocate a byte[] which contans the
>>>>> whole file, so it means that my server can be OOM if too many users upload
>>>>> a large file in the same time.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I've tryied with a Heap and ByteBuffer memory managers, with
>>>>> reallocate=true/false but no more success.
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems the whole file content is appended wto the
>>>>> BufferOutputStream, and then the underlying buffer is written.
>>>>>
>>>>> At least this seems to be the case with AHC integration:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://github.com/AsyncHttpClient/async-http-client/blob/6faf1f316e5546110b0779a5a42fd9d03ba6bc15/providers/grizzly/src/main/java/org/asynchttpclient/providers/grizzly/bodyhandler/PartsBodyHandler.java
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> So, is there a way to patch AHC to stream the file so that I could
>>>>> eventually consume only 20mo of heap while uploading a 500mo file?
>>>>> Or is this simply impossible with Grizzly?
>>>>> I didn't notice anything related to that in the documentation.
>>>>>
>>>> It's possible with the FeedableBodyGenerator. But if you're tied to
>>>> using Multipart uploads, you'd have to convert the multipart data to
>>>> Buffers manually and send using the FeedableBodyGenerator.
>>>> I'll take a closer look to see if this area can be improved.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Btw in my case it is a file upload. I receive a file with CXF and have
>>>>> to transmit it to a storage server (like S3). CXF doesn't consume memory
>>>>> bevause it is streaming the large fle uploads to the file system, and then
>>>>> provides an input stream on that file.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>
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