Wei-Chiu Chuang created HADOOP-16284:
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Summary: KMS Cache Miss Storm
Key: HADOOP-16284
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-16284
Project: Hadoop Common
Issue Type: Bug
Components: kms
Affects Versions: 2.6.0
Environment: CDH 5.13.1, Kerberized, Cloudera Keytrustee Server
Reporter: Wei-Chiu Chuang
We recently stumble upon a performance issue with KMS, where occasionally it
exhibited "No content to map" error (this cluster ran an old version that
doesn't have HADOOP-14841) and jobs crashed. *We bumped the number of KMSes
from 2 to 4, and situation went even worse.*
Later, we realized this cluster had a few hundred encryption zones and a few
hundred encryption keys. This is pretty unusual because most of the deployments
known to us has at most a dozen keys. So in terms of number of keys, this
cluster is 1-2 order of magnitude higher than any one else.
The high number of encryption keys in creases the likelihood of key cache miss
in KMS. In Cloudera's setup, each cache miss forces KMS to sync with its
backend, the Cloudera Keytrustee Server. Plus the high number of KMSes
amplifies the latency, effectively causing a [cache miss
storm|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_stampede].
We were able to reproduce this issue with KMS-o-meter (HDFS-14312) - I will
come up with a better name later surely - and discovered a scalability bug in
CKTS. The fix was verified again with the tool.
Filing this bug so the community is aware of this issue. I don't have a
solution for now in KMS. But we want to address this scalability problem in the
near future because we are seeing use cases that requires thousands of
encryption keys.
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On a side note, 4 KMS doesn't work well without HADOOP-14445 (and subsequent
fixes). A MapReduce job acquires at most 3 KMS delegation tokens, and so for
cases, such as distcp, it wouldn fail to reach the 4th KMS on the remote
cluster. I imagine similar issues exist for other execution engines, but I
didn't test.
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