Re: Failed job restart - flink on yarn

Posted by Jamie Grier on
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Hi Prabhu,

Have you taken a look at Flink's savepoints feature?  This allows you to make snapshots of your job's state on demand and then at any time restart your job from that point: https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.0/apis/streaming/savepoints.html

Also know that you can use Flink disk-backed state backend as well if you're job state is larger than fits in memory.  See https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.0/apis/streaming/state_backends.html#the-rocksdbstatebackend


-Jamie


On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 1:34 PM, [hidden email] <[hidden email]> wrote:
Hi,

I have a flink streaming job that reads from kafka, performs a aggregation
in a window, it ran fine for a while however when the number of events in a
window crossed a certain limit , the yarn containers failed with Out Of
Memory. The job was running with 10G containers.

We have about 64G memory on the machine and now I want to restart the job
with a 20G container (we ran some tests and 20G should be good enough to
accomodate all the elements from the window).

Is there a way to restart the job from the last checkpoint ?

When I resubmit the job, it starts from the last committed offsets however
the events that were held in the window at the time of checkpointing seem to
get lost. Is there a way to recover the events buffered within the window
and were checkpointed before the failure ?

Thanks,
Prabhu



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