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Datanode WRITE_BLOCK Error

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Expert Contributor

Hi,

I have 3 node Cloudera 5.9 Cluster running on CentOS 6.7.

Recently during any write operation on Hadoop, I am witnessing these errors in Datanode logs. However the write happens but I am concerned why this is happening.

 

PFB the stack trace.

2017-07-29 10:33:04,109 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode: <datanodename>:50010:DataXceiver error processing WRITE_BLOCK
operation  src: /Y.Y.Y.Y:43298 dst: /X.X.X.X:50010
java.io.IOException: Premature EOF from inputStream
        at org.apache.hadoop.io.IOUtils.readFully(IOUtils.java:201)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.datatransfer.PacketReceiver.doReadFully(PacketReceiver.java:213)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.datatransfer.PacketReceiver.doRead(PacketReceiver.java:134)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.datatransfer.PacketReceiver.receiveNextPacket(PacketReceiver.java:109)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.BlockReceiver.receivePacket(BlockReceiver.java:500)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.BlockReceiver.receiveBlock(BlockReceiver.java:896)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataXceiver.writeBlock(DataXceiver.java:802)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.datatransfer.Receiver.opWriteBlock(Receiver.java:169)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.datatransfer.Receiver.processOp(Receiver.java:106)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataXceiver.run(DataXceiver.java:246)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
2017-07-29 10:36:06,172 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.jmx.JMXJsonServlet: getting attribute DatanodeNetworkCounts of Hadoop:service=DataNode,name=DataNodeInfo threw an except
ion
javax.management.RuntimeMBeanException: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.rethrow(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:839)
        at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.rethrowMaybeMBeanException(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:852)
        at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.getAttribute(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:651)
        at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.getAttribute(JmxMBeanServer.java:678)
        at org.apache.hadoop.jmx.JMXJsonServlet.writeAttribute(JMXJsonServlet.java:346)
        at org.apache.hadoop.jmx.JMXJsonServlet.listBeans(JMXJsonServlet.java:324)
        at org.apache.hadoop.jmx.JMXJsonServlet.doGet(JMXJsonServlet.java:217)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:707)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:511)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1221)
        at org.apache.hadoop.http.lib.StaticUserWebFilter$StaticUserFilter.doFilter(StaticUserWebFilter.java:109)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1212)
        at org.apache.hadoop.http.HttpServer2$QuotingInputFilter.doFilter(HttpServer2.java:1296)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1212)
        at org.apache.hadoop.http.NoCacheFilter.doFilter(NoCacheFilter.java:45)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1212)
        at org.apache.hadoop.http.NoCacheFilter.doFilter(NoCacheFilter.java:45)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1212)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:399)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:182)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:767)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:450)at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:152)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:326)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:542)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(HttpConnection.java:928)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:549)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:212)
        at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:404)
        at org.mortbay.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:410)
        at org.mortbay.thread.QueuedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:582)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode.getDatanodeNetworkCounts(DataNode.java:1956)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
        at sun.reflect.misc.Trampoline.invoke(MethodUtil.java:75)
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor2.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
        at sun.reflect.misc.MethodUtil.invoke(MethodUtil.java:279)
        at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.ConvertingMethod.invokeWithOpenReturn(ConvertingMethod.java:193)
        at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.ConvertingMethod.invokeWithOpenReturn(ConvertingMethod.java:175)
        at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.MXBeanIntrospector.invokeM2(MXBeanIntrospector.java:117)
        at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.MXBeanIntrospector.invokeM2(MXBeanIntrospector.java:54)
        at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.MBeanIntrospector.invokeM(MBeanIntrospector.java:237)
        at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.PerInterface.getAttribute(PerInterface.java:83)
        at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.MBeanSupport.getAttribute(MBeanSupport.java:206)
        at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.getAttribute(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:647)
        ... 31 more
2017-07-29 10:36:06,231 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.jmx.JMXJsonServlet: getting attribute NamenodeAddresses of Hadoop:service=DataNode,name=DataNodeInfo threw an exception
javax.management.RuntimeMBeanException: java.lang.NullPointerException
2017-07-31 14:49:41,561 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode: <datanodename>:50010:DataXceiver error processing WRITE_BLOCK operation src: /Y.Y.Y.Y:43298 dst: /X.X.X.X:50010 java.io.IOException: Not ready to serve the block pool, BP-939287337-X.X.X.X-1484085163925.
        at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataXceiver.checkAndWaitForBP(DataXceiver.java:1284)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataXceiver.checkAccess(DataXceiver.java:1292)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataXceiver.writeBlock(DataXceiver.java:624)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.datatransfer.Receiver.opWriteBlock(Receiver.java:169)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.datatransfer.Receiver.processOp(Receiver.java:106)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataXceiver.run(DataXceiver.java:246)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Some Important configurations of my cluster:

yarn.nodemanager.resource.memory-mb - 12GB yarn.scheduler.maximum-allocation-mb - 16GB mapreduce.map.memory.mb - 4GB mapreduce.reduce.memory.mb - 4GB mapreduce.map.java.opts.max.heap - 3GB mapreduce.reduce.java.opts.max.heap - 3GB namenode_java_heapsize - 6GB secondarynamenode_java_heapsize - 6GB dfs_datanode_max_locked_memory - 3GB

dfs blocksize - 128 MB

Can anyone please help me?

Thanks,

Shilpa

1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION

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Champion

It is related to an JMX counter within the Datanode process.  I am not sure what it is counting but it something within it is throwing an NPE.  This is likely coming after the write stream has process all data but since it hits this exception it throws and exits.  It should be safe to ignore this error.

 

getDatanodeNetworkCounts

 A related JIRA although it doesn't seem to be part of CDH yet.

 

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-7331

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Champion

It is related to an JMX counter within the Datanode process.  I am not sure what it is counting but it something within it is throwing an NPE.  This is likely coming after the write stream has process all data but since it hits this exception it throws and exits.  It should be safe to ignore this error.

 

getDatanodeNetworkCounts

 A related JIRA although it doesn't seem to be part of CDH yet.

 

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-7331

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Expert Contributor

Ok @mbigelow thanks. I also reasearched more and found this hortonworks link, https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/45962/dataxceiver-error-processing-write-block-operation... where they say we can ignore this error. 

This issue has been already fixed in 2.3 version of ambari but of course I am using CDH.

 

Thanks,

Shilpa