Increasing the Statestore Timeout

If you have an extensive Impala schema, for example with hundreds of databases, tens of thousands of tables, and so on, you might encounter timeout errors during startup as the Impala catalog service broadcasts metadata to all the Impala nodes using the statestore service. To avoid such timeout errors on startup, increase the statestore timeout value from its default of 10 seconds. Specify the timeout value using the -statestore_subscriber_timeout_seconds option for the statestore service, using the configuration instructions in Modifying Impala Startup Options. The symptom of this problem is messages in the impalad log such as:

Connection with state-store lost
Trying to re-register with state-store

Setting the Idle Query and Idle Session Timeouts for impalad

To keep long-running queries or idle sessions from tying up cluster resources, you can set timeout intervals for both individual queries, and entire sessions. Specify the following startup options for the impalad daemon:

• The --idle_query_timeout option specifies the time in seconds after which an idle query is cancelled. This could be a query whose results were all fetched but was never closed, or one whose results were partially fetched and then the client program stopped requesting further results. This condition is most likely to occur in a client program using the JDBC or ODBC interfaces, rather than in the interactive impala-shell interpreter. Once the query is cancelled, the client program cannot retrieve any further results.
• The --idle_session_timeout option specifies the time in seconds after which an idle session is expired. A session is idle when no activity is occurring for any of the queries in that session, and the session has not started any new queries. Once a session is expired, you cannot issue any new query requests to it. The session remains open, but the only operation you can perform is to close it. The default value of 0 means that sessions never expire.

For instructions on changing impalad startup options, see Modifying Impala Startup Options.