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@calculator@S300L160371 is one of our durable entities. We use them to do some calculations (inkl. reading some data from a storage account as input and then writing the result to a database). There is one such calculator entity for each iot-device we have.
in our productive environment, we have at the moment about 1.5k such entities, which should doing calculations more or less in parallel. but each device must do 1 calculation at a time, so there we need to have some synchronization. durable entities could give us that.
However, we have the feeling that in some scaling scenarios it's not 100% guaranteed, that we have only 1 entity instance at the same time over all function app instances.
Maybe the null-reference comes from a concurrency scenario?
I think we are using the latest released packages:
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OK, no worries. I'll close this issue in the meantime but ping me if you see it again and we can reopen.
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I just realized that this exception always comes together with several warning logs (warnings come first).
Category | DurableTask.Core |
Event name | DiscardingMessage |
message | {entityId}: Discarding [EventRaised]: Received work-item for an invalid orchestration |
details | Received work-item for an invalid orchestration |
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Ah, another info: we are using in-process functions, with .NET 6
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Glad to hear that the MSSQL package is mostly working well for you. :)
The NullReferenceException
makes me think there is a bug in our code that's somehow specific to @calculator@S300L160371
. For example, maybe there's some unexpected or missing state in the database. Because this exception is going unhandled in the SQL provider code, it's resulting in throttling by the Durable Task Framework, which will impact the throughput of the entire VM.
I think we need to look at this more closely to understand what's causing the null-ref and try to fix it. Which versions of the DurableTask nuget packages are you using?
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@gha-zund with the information you provided above, I was able to locate your Durable Entity instance and see this exception and the warnings you mentioned. I suspect that there's some error case that results in storing invalid state into the database. Corrupt state in the database will trigger the warning you're seeing, and I suspect that warning is what leads to the exception.
I'm not sure if it's related to concurrency - the SQL backend has strong transactional consistency which should make it more resistant to state corruption. However, we can't completely rule it out yet.
To root cause this, I'll need to see what data you have in your database. Are you able to run the following query against your SQL database and share the results (feel free to scrub out any data that can't be shared publicly):
DECLARE @EntityID varchar(50) = '@calculator@S300L160371'
SELECT * FROM dt.Instances WHERE InstanceID = @EntityID
SELECT * FROM dt.History WHERE InstanceID = @EntityID
SELECT * FROM dt.NewEvents WHERE InstanceID = @EntityID
Ideally this would be captured when the errors are ongoing for a particular entity, and you can change the entity ID used in the query if needed. If the problem self-heals, then the result may not contain anything useful. The most important result would be the data in the dt.History
table, which would give us a clue about whether there is corruption.
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Alright, thanks for the hints!
I fear the data will not be available anymore, since we purged all the history for all entities to get a clean state for further evaluation...
The warnings did not occur the last 24h anymore, so maybe the problem is gone too.
We will keep the eyes open and provide the data in case the warnings appear again!
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