Details
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Bug
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Status: Resolved
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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1.6.0, 1.6.1, 1.6.2
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None
Description
After updating Spark from 1.5.0 to 1.6.0, I found that it seems to have a memory leak on my Spark streaming application.
Here is the head of the heap histogram of my application, which has been running about 160 hours:
num #instances #bytes class name ---------------------------------------------- 1: 28094 71753976 [B 2: 1188086 28514064 java.lang.Long 3: 1183844 28412256 scala.collection.mutable.DefaultEntry 4: 102242 13098768 <methodKlass> 5: 102242 12421000 <constMethodKlass> 6: 8184 9199032 <constantPoolKlass> 7: 38 8391584 [Lscala.collection.mutable.HashEntry; 8: 8184 7514288 <instanceKlassKlass> 9: 6651 4874080 <constantPoolCacheKlass> 10: 37197 3438040 [C 11: 6423 2445640 <methodDataKlass> 12: 8773 1044808 java.lang.Class 13: 36869 884856 java.lang.String 14: 15715 848368 [[I 15: 13690 782808 [S 16: 18903 604896 java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap$HashEntry 17: 13 426192 [Lscala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinTask;
It shows that scala.collection.mutable.DefaultEntry and java.lang.Long have unexpected big numbers of instances. In fact, the numbers started growing at streaming process began, and keep growing proportional to total number of tasks.
After some further investigation, I found that the problem is caused by some inappropriate memory management in releaseUnrollMemoryForThisTask and unrollSafely method of class org.apache.spark.storage.MemoryStore.
In Spark 1.6.x, a releaseUnrollMemoryForThisTask operation will be processed only with the parameter memoryToRelease > 0:
https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/branch-1.6/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/storage/MemoryStore.scala#L530-L537
But in fact, if a task successfully unrolled all its blocks in memory by unrollSafely method, the memory saved in unrollMemoryMap would be set to zero:
https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/branch-1.6/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/storage/MemoryStore.scala#L322
So the result is, the memory saved in unrollMemoryMap will be released, but the key of that part of memory will never be removed from the hash map. The hash table will keep increasing, while new tasks keep incoming. Although the speed of increase is comparatively slow (about dozens of bytes per task), it is possible that result into OOM after weeks or months.