ALM-19033 Number of Tasks in the RegionServer RPC Read Queue Exceeds the Threshold

Alarm Description

The system checks the number of tasks waiting in the RPC read queue for the RegionServer instances of the HBase service every 30 seconds. This alarm is generated when the number of waiting tasks exceeds the threshold for 10 consecutive times.

This alarm is cleared when the number of waiting tasks is less than or equal to the threshold.

Alarm Attributes

Alarm Parameters

Impact on the System

Request queues are stacked, and the response time of read requests increases. For latency-sensitive services, a large number of service read requests may time out.

Possible Causes

• The RegionServer heap memory configuration is improper.
• The RegionServer configuration is improper.
• Regions of RegionServers are unevenly distributed, and read hotspotting occurred.
• A slow disk fault occurred.

Handling Procedure

1. Log in to FusionInsight Manager and choose O&M. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Alarm > Alarms. On the page that is displayed, locate the row containing the alarm whose Alarm ID is 19033, and view the service instance and host name in Location.

Check the heap memory configuration.

2. In the alarm list on FusionInsight Manager, check whether the "Heap Memory Usage of the HBase Process Exceeds the Threshold" alarm is generated for the service instance in 1.
   • If yes, go to 3.
   • If no, go to 5.

3. Rectify the fault by following the handling procedure of "ALM-19008 Heap Memory Usage of the HBase Process Exceeds the Threshold".
4. Wait several minutes and check whether the alarm is cleared.
   • If yes, no further action is required.
   • If no, go to 5.

5. On FusionInsight Manager, choose Cluster > Services > HBase > Chart, select GC from the chart category, and check whether the GC times and GC monitoring period are normal.
   • If yes, go to 6.
   • If no, go to 9.

6. Click Configurations, search for GC_OPTS, and increase the value of Xmx of the RegionServer within the allowed memory range. Set the value to a number less than or equal to 31 GB. Click Save.
7. Click Dashboard and click More > Restart Service to restart the HBase service.
8. Wait several minutes and check whether the alarm is cleared.
   • If yes, no further action is required.
   • If no, go to 9.

Check the RegionServer configuration.

9. On FusionInsight Manager, choose Cluster > Services > HBase, click Configurations > All Configurations, and check whether hbase.bucketcache.size is properly set. A larger value indicates a larger read cache and higher read performance. Increase the value based on the remaining memory of the node and click Save. Click Dashboard and click More > Restart Service to restart the HBase service.
10. Wait several minutes and check whether the alarm is cleared.
    • If yes, no further action is required.
    • If no, go to 11.

11. On the HBase dashboard, click the hyperlink on the right of HMaster Web UI. In the User Tables tab in the Tables area, click the name of the table hit by a large number of user read requests. In the Table Schema area of the Table tab, check whether the value of BLOCKCACHE is false.
    • If yes, go to 12.
    • If no, go to 14.

    

12. Log in to the node where the HBase client is installed as user omm. Run the following commands to change the value of BLOCKCACHE of the 11 table column family to true:

    cd Client installation directory

    source bigdata_env

    kinit the supergroup user group or a user with the Global Admin permission (If Kerberos authentication is disabled for the cluster, skip this operation.)

    hbase shell

    alter'Table name', {NAME =>'Column family name', BLOCKCACHE => true}

    Run the following command to check whether the value of BLOCKCACHE of the column family is changed to true:

    describe'Table name'

13. Wait several minutes and check whether the alarm is cleared.
    • If yes, no further action is required.
    • If no, go to 14.

Check whether regions of RegionServers are evenly distributed.

14. On FusionInsight Manager, choose Cluster > Services > HBase and click HMaster(Active). On the HBase web UI, check whether regions are evenly distributed in the Num.Regions column in the Base Stats tab in the Region Servers area.
    • If yes, go to 20.
    • If no, go to 15.

    

15. Log in to the faulty RegionServer node as user omm.
16. Run the following commands to go to the client installation directory and set the environment variable:

    cd Client installation directory

    source bigdata_env

    kinit the supergroup user group or a user with the Global Admin permission (If Kerberos authentication is disabled for the cluster, skip this operation.)

17. Run the following commands to check whether the load balancing function is enabled:

    hbase shell

    balancer_enabled

    If the command output is true, load balancing is enabled.

    • If yes, go to 20.
    • If no, go to 18.

18. Run the following commands to enable load balancing and check whether the function is successfully enabled:

    balance_switch true

    balancer_enabled

    Run the balancer command to manually trigger the load balancing function.

    

    You are advised to enable and trigger load balancing during off-peak hours.

19. Wait several minutes and check whether the alarm is cleared.
    • If yes, no further action is required.
    • If no, go to 20.

Check for slow disk fault.

20. Check whether alarm "Slow Disk Fault" or "Disk Unavailable" are generated on the node in 1.
    • If yes, go to 21.
    • If no, go to 23.

21. Rectify the fault by following the handling procedure of "ALM-12033 Slow Disk Fault" or "ALM-12063 Disk Unavailable".
22. Wait several minutes and check whether the alarm is cleared.
    • If yes, no further action is required.
    • If no, go to 23.

Collect fault information.

23. On FusionInsight Manager, choose Cluster > Services > HBase > Chart, select IO from the Chart Category area, and view the values of Maximum Pread Latency-All Instances and Maximum Read Latency-All Instances. Normal values do not exceed 100 ms.
24. On FusionInsight Manager, choose O&M. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Log > Download.
25. Expand the Service drop-down list, and select HBase for the target cluster.
26. Click the edit icon in the upper right corner, and set Start Date and End Date for log collection to 10 minutes ahead of and after the alarm generation time, respectively. Then, click Download.
27. Contact O&M engineers and provide the collected logs.

Alarm Clearance

This alarm is automatically cleared after the fault is rectified.

Related Information

None.