I would like to know how maxLifetime and idleTimeout settings behave in a fixed-size Hikari pool.
Under which circumstances are connections being retired from a fixed-size pool? And since the pool is fixed-size, is a new connection immediately created after a retirement?
Furthermore, what happens if the database itself (MySQL in my case) closes a connection after the database wait timeout is reached (in case the maxLifetime is not less than the DB timeout)?
Will the connection be retired from the fixed-size pool and another one will be immediately created?
Thanks!
HikariCP is retiring connections when connection reaches its maxLifetime or connection remains idle in pool for idleTimeout.
HikariCP housekeeper runs every 30s by default. to maintain 'minimumIdle' connections, it may add new connections or retire idle connections (not borrowed by client for idleTimeout millis).
you must set maxLifetime few mins less than (mysql)wait_timeout to avoid broken connection / exceptions.
HikariCP may add new connections in housekeeper or when client attempts to borrow connection. so it may not add connections immediately after retiring them.
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I run a JEE application on Payara 4.1 which uses PostgreSQL 9.5.8. The connection pool is configured in following way.
<jdbc-resource poolName="<poolName>" jndiName="<jndiName>" isConnectionValidationRequired="true"
connectionValidationMethod="table" validationTableName="version()" maxPoolSize="30"
validateAtmostOncePeriodInSeconds="30" statementTimeoutInSeconds="30" isTimerPool="true" steadyPoolSize="5"
idleTimeoutInSeconds="0" connectionCreationRetryAttempts="100000" connectionCreationRetryIntervalInSeconds="30"
maxWaitTimeInMillis="2000">
From what monitors say, the applications needs 1-3 DB connections to postgres when running. Steady pool size is set to 5, max pool size is 30.
I see, that about 4 times a day the application opens all connections to the database hitting the max pool size limit. Some requests to the server fail at this point with exception: java.sql.SQLException: Error in allocating a connection. Cause: In-use connections equal max-pool-size and expired max-wait-time. Cannot allocate more connections.
After some seconds all issues are gone, and the server runs fine till the next hiccup.
I have requested some TCP dumps to be performed to look closely into what happens exactly. I see that:
After 30 connections (sockets) have been opened, most of the connections are rarely used.
After some time (1h or so) the server tries to access some of such pooled connections to realize, that the socket is closed (DB responds immediately with a TCP RST).
As the pooled connections count decreases hitting steady pool size, the connection pool opens 25 connections (sockets) which takes some time (about 0,5 up to 1 second per connection – don’t know why this long, as the TCP handshakes are immediate). At this point some server transactions are failing.
The loop repeats.
This issue is driving me mad. I was wondering, whether I am missing some crucial pool configuration to revalidate the connections more often but could not find anything that would help.
EDIT:
What does not help, as we have tested it already:
Making the pool size bigger (same issues)
Removing idleTimeoutInSeconds="0". We had issues with the connection pool every 10 minutes we did that.
Context
I am running a SpringBoot application on Cloud Run which connects to a postgres11 CloudSQL database using a Hikari connection pool. I am using the smallest PSQL instance (1vcpu/614mb/25connection limit). For the setup, I have followed these resources:
Connecting to Cloud SQL from Cloud Run
Managing database connections
Problem
After deploying the third revision, I get the following error:
FATAL: remaining connection slots are reserved for non-replication superuser connections
What I found out
Default connection pool size is 10, hence why it fails on the third deployment (30 > 25).
When deleting an old revision, active connections shown in the Cloud SQL admin panel drop by 10, and the next deployment succeeds.
Question
It seems, that old Cloud Run revisions are being kept in a "cold" state, maintaining their connection pools. Is there a way to close these connections without deleting the revisions?
In the best practices section it says:
...we recommend that you use a client library that supports connection pools that automatically reconnect broken client connections."
What is the recommended way of managing connection pools in Cloud Run, given that it seems old revisions somehow manage to maintain their connections?
Thanks!
Currently, Cloud Run doesn't provide any guarantees on how long it will remain warm after it's started up. When not in use, the instance is severely throttled by not necessarily shutdown. Thus, you have some revisions that are holding up connections even when not being directed traffic.
Even in this situation, I disagree that with the idea that you should avoid using connection pooling. Connection pooling can lower latency, improve stability, and help put an upper limit on the number of open connections. Alternatively, you can use some of the following configuration options to help keep your pool in check:
minimumIdle - This property controls the minimum number of idle connections that HikariCP tries to maintain in the pool. If the idle connections dip below this value and total connections in the pool are less than maximumPoolSize, HikariCP will make a best effort to add additional connections quickly and efficiently.
maximumPoolSize - This property controls the maximum size that the pool is allowed to reach, including both idle and in-use connections.
idleTimeout - This property controls the maximum amount of time that a connection is allowed to sit idle in the pool. This setting only applies when minimumIdle is defined to be less than maximumPoolSize. Idle connections will not be retired once the pool reaches minimumIdle connections.
If you set minimumIdle to 0, your application will still be able to use up to maximumPoolSize connections at once. However, once a connection is idle in the pool for idleTimeout seconds, it will be closed. If you set idleTimeout to something small like 1 minute, it will allow the number of connections your pool is using to scale down to 0 when not in use.
Hope this helps!
The issue here is that the connections don't get closed by HikariCP when they are opened. I don't know much about Hikari but I found this which explains how connections should be handled through Hikari. I hope that helps!
I am using SpringBoot(2.0.4),Hibernate,Postgres and HikariCP(2.7.9)
I want a configuration in which the pooled connections by HikariCP should be released back to DB after certain amount of being Idle.
For example considering the default configuration of HikariCP in SpringBoot, the pool is initialized with 10 DB Connections.
I want that if there is inactivity for suppose 2 hours all the connections should be return back to DB.
If after 2 hours any request for connections comes, the HikariCP should reinitialize the whole pool of 10 connections and serve it.
Is this possible ? Is there any configuration setting for such requirement ?
Will connections in the "Idle in Transaction" state be closed if the Connection Idle Lifetime is exceeded, or will only connections in the "Idle" state be closed?
On background, the documentation for Connection Idle Lifetime states:
The time (in seconds) to wait before closing idle connections in the
pool if the count of all connections exceeds MinPoolSize. Since 3.1
only.
No. Connections that are "idle in transaction" are in-use by a user, in the sense that they're not sitting idly in the connection pool waiting for someone to allocate them. As the quoted doc says, only "idle connections in the pool" are affected - if they're idle in the pool they can't be in a transaction.
I run 3 processes at the same time , all of them are using the same DB (RDS postgres)
all of them are java application that uses JDBC for connecting to the DB
I am using PGPoolingDataSource in every process as a connection pool for the DB
every request is handled by the book - ended with
finally{
connection.close();
}
main problems:
1.
I ran out of connections really fast because I do a massive work
with the DB at the beginning (which is ok) but the pool never
shrinks.
I get some exceptions in the code because there are not enough connections and I wish I could expand the timeout when a requesting
a connection.
My insights:
the PGPoolinDataSource never shrinks by definition! I couldn't find any documentation about it, but I assume this is the case. So I tried the apache DBCP pool and again I am having the same problem .
I think there must be timeout when waiting for a connection - I would guess that this timeout can be configured, but I couldn't find this configuration on both pools .
My Questions:
why does the pool never shrinks?!
how to determine how many connections to allocate for each pool\process (here every process has one pool)
what happens if I don't close the pool (not the connections) and the app is dead does the connections on the pool are still alive? this happens a lot when I update the application I stop and start it so I never close the pool.
what would be a good JDBC connection pool that works best with postgres and that has an option to set the timeout for the getConnection ?
Thanks