The cron is responsible for expiring keys. When keys are expired at
load time, it is possible that the snapshot of a master node gets
modified. This can in turn lead to inconsistencies in the data set.
A more concrete example of this behavior follows. A user reported a
slave that would show an monotonically increase input buffer length,
shortly after completing a SYNC. Also, `INFO` output showed a single
blocked client, which could only be the master link. Investigation
showed that indeed the `BRPOP` command was fed by the master. This
command can only end up in the stream of write operations when it did
NOT block, and effectively executed `RPOP`. However, when the key
involved in the `BRPOP` is expired BEFORE the command is executed, the
client executing it will block. The client in this case, is the master
link.
1) sendReplyToClient() now no longer stops transferring data to a single
client in the case we are out of memory (maxmemory-wise).
2) in processCommand() the idea of we being out of memory is no longer
the naive zmalloc_used_memory() > server.maxmemory. To say if we can
accept or not write queries is up to the return value of
freeMemoryIfNeeded(), that has full control about that.
3) freeMemoryIfNeeded() now does its math without considering output
buffers size. But at the same time it can't let the output buffers to
put us too much outside the max memory limit, so at the same time it
makes sure there is enough effort into delivering the output buffers to
the slaves, calling the write handler directly.
This three changes are the result of many tests, I found (partially
empirically) that is the best way to address the problem, but maybe
we'll find better solutions in the future.
1) sendReplyToClient() now no longer stops transferring data to a single
client in the case we are out of memory (maxmemory-wise).
2) in processCommand() the idea of we being out of memory is no longer
the naive zmalloc_used_memory() > server.maxmemory. To say if we can
accept or not write queries is up to the return value of
freeMemoryIfNeeded(), that has full control about that.
3) freeMemoryIfNeeded() now does its math without considering output
buffers size. But at the same time it can't let the output buffers to
put us too much outside the max memory limit, so at the same time it
makes sure there is enough effort into delivering the output buffers to
the slaves, calling the write handler directly.
This three changes are the result of many tests, I found (partially
empirically) that is the best way to address the problem, but maybe
we'll find better solutions in the future.
