Re: BUG #16104: Invalid DSA Memory Alloc Request in Parallel Hash

On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 10:08:58AM +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
>I think I see what's happening: we're running out of hash bits.
>
>> Buckets: 4194304 (originally 4194304)  Batches: 32768 (originally 4096)  Memory Usage: 344448kB
>
>Here it's using the lower 22 bits for the bucket number, and started
>out using 12 bits for the batch (!), and increased that until it got
>to 15 (!!).  After using 22 bits for the bucket, there are only 10
>bits left, so all the tuples go into the lower 1024 batches.
>

Ouch!

>I'm not sure how exactly this leads to wildly varying numbers of
>repartioning cycles (the above-quoted example did it 3 times, the
>version that crashed into MaxAllocSize did it ~10 times).
>
>Besides switching to 64 bit hashes so that we don't run out of
>information (clearly a good idea), what other options do we have?  (1)
>We could disable repartitioning (give up on work_mem) after we've run
>out of bits; this will eat more memory than it should.  (2) You could
>start stealing bucket bits; this will eat more CPU than it should,
>because you'd effectively have fewer active buckets (tuples will
>concentrated on the bits you didn't steal).

Can't we simply compute two hash values, using different seeds - one for
bucket and the other for batch? Of course, that'll be more expensive.

regards

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