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Scheduler State Machine

Overview

The life of a computation with Dask can be described in the following stages:

1. The user authors a graph using some library, perhaps dask.delayed or dask.dataframe or the submit/map functions on the client. They submit these tasks to the scheduler.

2. The scheduler assimilates these tasks into its graph of all tasks to track, and as their dependencies become available it asks workers to run each of these tasks in turn.

3. The worker receives information about how to run the task, communicates with its peer workers to collect data dependencies, and then runs the relevant function on the appropriate data. It reports back to the scheduler that it has finished, keeping the result stored in the worker where it was computed.

4. The scheduler reports back to the user that the task has completed. If the user desires, it then fetches the data from the worker through the scheduler.

Most relevant logic is in tracking tasks as they evolve from newly submitted, to waiting for dependencies, to actively running on some worker, to finished in memory, to garbage collected. Tracking this process, and tracking all effects that this task has on other tasks that might depend on it, is the majority of the complexity of the dynamic task scheduler. This section describes the system used to perform this tracking.

For more abstract information about the policies used by the scheduler, see Scheduling Policies.

The scheduler keeps internal state about several kinds of entities:

• Individual tasks known to the scheduler

• Workers connected to the scheduler

• Clients connected to the scheduler

Note

Everything listed in this page is an internal detail of how Dask operates. It may change between versions and you should probably avoid relying on it in user code (including on any APIs explained here).

Task State

Internally, the scheduler moves tasks between a fixed set of states, notably released, waiting, no-worker, queued, processing, memory, error.

Tasks flow along the following states with the following allowed transitions:

Note that tasks may also transition to released from any state (not shown on diagram).

released

Known but not actively computing or in memory

waiting

On track to be computed, waiting on dependencies to arrive in memory

no-worker

Ready to be computed, but no appropriate worker exists (for example because of resource restrictions, or because no worker is connected at all).

queued

Ready to be computed, but all workers are already full.

processing

All dependencies are available and the task is assigned to a worker for compute (the scheduler doesn’t know whether it’s in a worker queue or actively being computed).

memory

In memory on one or more workers

erred

Task computation, or one of its dependencies, has encountered an error

forgotten

Task is no longer needed by any client or dependent task, so it disappears from the scheduler as well. As soon as a task reaches this state, it is immediately dereferenced from the scheduler.

Note

When the distributed.scheduler.worker_saturation config value is set to inf (default), there’s no intermediate state between waiting / no-worker and processing: as soon as a task has all of its dependencies in memory somewhere on the cluster, it is immediately assigned to a worker. This can lead to very long task queues on the workers, which are then rebalanced dynamically through Work Stealing.

Setting distributed.scheduler.worker_saturation to 1.0 (or any finite value) will instead queue excess root tasks on the scheduler in the queued state. These tasks are only assigned to workers when they have capacity for them, reducing the length of task queues on the workers.

In addition to the literal state, though, other information needs to be kept and updated about each task. Individual task state is stored in an object named TaskState; see full API through the link.

The scheduler keeps track of all the TaskState objects (those not in the “forgotten” state) using several containers:

tasks: {str: TaskState}

A dictionary mapping task keys (always strings) to TaskState objects. Task keys are how information about tasks is communicated between the scheduler and clients, or the scheduler and workers; this dictionary is then used to find the corresponding TaskState object.

unrunnable: {TaskState}

A set of TaskState objects in the “no-worker” state. These tasks already have all their dependencies satisfied (their waiting_on set is empty), and are waiting for an appropriate worker to join the network before computing.

Once a task is queued up on a worker, it is also tracked on the worker side by the Worker State Machine.

Worker State

Each worker’s current state is stored in a WorkerState object; see full API through the link.

This is a scheduler-side object, which holds information about what the scheduler knows about each worker on the cluster, and is not to be confused with distributed.worker-state-machine.WorkerState.

This information is involved in deciding which worker to run a task on.

In addition to individual worker state, the scheduler maintains two containers to help with scheduling tasks:

Scheduler.saturated: {WorkerState}

A set of workers whose computing power (as measured by WorkerState.nthreads) is fully exploited by processing tasks, and whose current occupancy is a lot greater than the average.

Scheduler.idle: {WorkerState}

A set of workers whose computing power is not fully exploited. These workers are assumed to be able to start computing new tasks immediately.

These two sets are disjoint. Also, some workers may be neither “idle” nor “saturated”. “Idle” workers will be preferred when deciding a suitable worker to run a new task on. Conversely, “saturated” workers may see their workload lightened through Work Stealing.

Client State

Information about each individual client of the scheduler is kept in a ClientState object; see full API through the link.

Understanding a Task’s Flow

As seen above, there are numerous pieces of information pertaining to task and worker state, and some of them can be computed, updated or removed during a task’s transitions.

The table below shows which state variable a task is in, depending on the task’s state. Cells with a check mark (✓) indicate the task key must be present in the given state variable; cells with an question mark (?) indicate the task key may be present in the given state variable.

State variable	Released	Waiting	No-worker	Processing	Memory	Erred
TaskState.dependencies	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
TaskState.dependents	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
TaskState.host_restrictions	?	?	?	?	?	?
TaskState.worker_restrictions	?	?	?	?	?	?
TaskState.resource_restrictions	?	?	?	?	?	?
TaskState.loose_restrictions	?	?	?	?	?	?
TaskState.waiting_on		✓		✓
TaskState.waiters		✓		✓
TaskState.processing_on				✓
WorkerState.processing				✓
TaskState.who_has					✓
WorkerState.has_what					✓
TaskState.nbytes (1)	?	?	?	?	✓	?
TaskState.exception (2)						?
TaskState.traceback (2)						?
TaskState.exception_blame						✓
TaskState.retries	?	?	?	?	?	?
TaskState.suspicious_tasks	?	?	?	?	?	?

Notes:

1. TaskState.nbytes: this attribute can be known as long as a task has already been computed, even if it has been later released.

2. TaskState.exception and TaskState.traceback should be looked up on the TaskState.exception_blame task.

The table below shows which worker state variables are updated on each task state transition.

Transition	Affected worker state
released → waiting	occupancy, idle, saturated
waiting → processing	occupancy, idle, saturated, used_resources
waiting → memory	idle, saturated, nbytes
processing → memory	occupancy, idle, saturated, used_resources, nbytes
processing → erred	occupancy, idle, saturated, used_resources
processing → released	occupancy, idle, saturated, used_resources
memory → released	nbytes
memory → forgotten	nbytes

Note

Another way of understanding this table is to observe that entering or exiting a specific task state updates a well-defined set of worker state variables. For example, entering and exiting the “memory” state updates WorkerState.nbytes.

Implementation

Every transition between states is a separate method in the scheduler. These task transition functions are prefixed with transition and then have the name of the start and finish task state like the following.

def transition_released_waiting(self, key, stimulus_id): ...

def transition_processing_memory(self, key, stimulus_id): ...

def transition_processing_erred(self, key, stimulus_id): ...

These functions each have three effects.

1. They perform the necessary transformations on the scheduler state (the 20 dicts/lists/sets) to move one key between states.

2. They return a dictionary of recommended {key: state} transitions to enact directly afterwards on other keys. For example, after we transition a key into memory, we may find that many waiting keys are now ready to transition from waiting to a ready state.

3. Optionally, they include a set of validation checks that can be turned on for testing.

Rather than call these functions directly we call the central function transition:

def transition(self, key, final_state, stimulus_id): ...

This transition function finds the appropriate path from the current to the final state. It also serves as a central point for logging and diagnostics.

Often we want to enact several transitions at once or want to continually respond to new transitions recommended by initial transitions until we reach a steady state. For that we use the transitions function (note the plural s).

def transitions(self, recommendations, stimulus_id):
    recommendations = recommendations.copy()
    while recommendations:
        key, finish = recommendations.popitem()
        new = self.transition(key, finish)
        recommendations.update(new)

This function runs transition, takes the recommendations and runs them as well, repeating until no further task-transitions are recommended.

Stimuli

Transitions occur from stimuli, which are state-changing messages to the scheduler from workers or clients. The scheduler responds to the following stimuli:

Workers

task-finished

A task has completed on a worker and is now in memory

task-erred

A task ran and erred on a worker

reschedule

A task has completed on a worker by raising Reschedule

long-running

A task is still running on the worker, but it called secede()

add-keys

Replication finished. One or more tasks, which were previously in memory on other workers, are now in memory on one additional worker. Also used to inform the scheduler of a successful scatter() operation.

request-refresh-who-has

All peers that hold a replica of a task in memory that a worker knows of are unavailable (temporarily or permanently), so the worker can’t fetch it and is asking the scheduler if it knows of any additional replicas. This call is repeated periodically until a new replica appears.

release-worker-data

A worker informs that the scheduler that it no longer holds the task in memory

worker-status-change

The global status of a worker has just changed, e.g. between running and paused.

log-event

A generic event happened on the worker, which should be logged centrally. Note that this is in addition to the worker’s log, which the client can fetch on request (up to a certain length).

keep-alive

A worker informs that it’s still online and responsive. This uses the batched stream channel, as opposed to distributed.worker.Worker.heartbeat() and Scheduler.heartbeat_worker() which use dedicated RPC comms, and is needed to prevent firewalls from closing down the batched stream.

register-worker

A new worker was added to the network

unregister

An existing worker left the network

Clients

update-graph

The client sends more tasks to the scheduler

client-releases-keys

The client no longer desires the result of certain keys.

Note that there are many more client API endpoints (e.g. to serve scatter() etc.), which are not listed here for the sake of brevity.

Stimuli functions are prepended with the text stimulus, and take a variety of keyword arguments from the message as in the following examples:

def stimulus_task_finished(self, key=None, worker=None, nbytes=None,
                           type=None, compute_start=None, compute_stop=None,
                           transfer_start=None, transfer_stop=None):

def stimulus_task_erred(self, key=None, worker=None,
                        exception=None, traceback=None)

These functions change some non-essential administrative state and then call transition functions.

Note that there are several other non-state-changing messages that we receive from the workers and clients, such as messages requesting information about the current state of the scheduler. These are not considered stimuli.

API

class distributed.scheduler.Scheduler(loop=None, delete_interval='500ms', synchronize_worker_interval='60s', services=None, service_kwargs=None, allowed_failures=None, extensions=None, validate=None, scheduler_file=None, security=None, worker_ttl=None, idle_timeout=None, interface=None, host=None, port=0, protocol=None, dashboard_address=None, dashboard=None, http_prefix='/', preload=None, preload_argv=(), plugins=(), contact_address=None, transition_counter_max=False, jupyter=False, **kwargs)

Dynamic distributed task scheduler

The scheduler tracks the current state of workers, data, and computations. The scheduler listens for events and responds by controlling workers appropriately. It continuously tries to use the workers to execute an ever growing dask graph.

All events are handled quickly, in linear time with respect to their input (which is often of constant size) and generally within a millisecond. To accomplish this the scheduler tracks a lot of state. Every operation maintains the consistency of this state.

The scheduler communicates with the outside world through Comm objects. It maintains a consistent and valid view of the world even when listening to several clients at once.

A Scheduler is typically started either with the dask scheduler executable:

$ dask scheduler
Scheduler started at 127.0.0.1:8786

Or within a LocalCluster a Client starts up without connection information:

>>> c = Client()  
>>> c.cluster.scheduler  
Scheduler(...)

Users typically do not interact with the scheduler directly but rather with the client object Client.

The contact_address parameter allows to advertise a specific address to the workers for communication with the scheduler, which is different than the address the scheduler binds to. This is useful when the scheduler listens on a private address, which therefore cannot be used by the workers to contact it.

State

The scheduler contains the following state variables. Each variable is listed along with what it stores and a brief description.

• tasks: {task key: TaskState}

  Tasks currently known to the scheduler

• unrunnable: {TaskState}

  Tasks in the “no-worker” state

• workers: {worker key: WorkerState}

  Workers currently connected to the scheduler

• idle: {WorkerState}:

  Set of workers that are not fully utilized

• saturated: {WorkerState}:

  Set of workers that are not over-utilized

• host_info: {hostname: dict}:

  Information about each worker host

• clients: {client key: ClientState}

  Clients currently connected to the scheduler

• services: {str: port}:

  Other services running on this scheduler, like Bokeh

• loop: IOLoop:

  The running Tornado IOLoop

• client_comms: {client key: Comm}

  For each client, a Comm object used to receive task requests and report task status updates.

• stream_comms: {worker key: Comm}

  For each worker, a Comm object from which we both accept stimuli and report results

• task_duration: {key-prefix: time}

  Time we expect certain functions to take, e.g. {'sum': 0.25}

adaptive_target(target_duration=None)

Desired number of workers based on the current workload

This looks at the current running tasks and memory use, and returns a number of desired workers. This is often used by adaptive scheduling.

Parameters

target_durationstr

A desired duration of time for computations to take. This affects how rapidly the scheduler will ask to scale.

See also

distributed.deploy.Adaptive

async add_client(comm: distributed.comm.core.Comm, client: str, versions: dict[str, Any]) → None

Add client to network

We listen to all future messages from this Comm.

add_keys(worker: str, keys: collections.abc.Collection[str] = (), stimulus_id: str | None = None) → Literal['OK', 'not found']

Learn that a worker has certain keys

This should not be used in practice and is mostly here for legacy reasons. However, it is sent by workers from time to time.

add_plugin(plugin: distributed.diagnostics.plugin.SchedulerPlugin, *, idempotent: bool = False, name: str | None = None, **kwargs: Any) → None

Add external plugin to scheduler.

See https://distributed.readthedocs.io/en/latest/plugins.html

Parameters

pluginSchedulerPlugin

SchedulerPlugin instance to add

idempotentbool

If true, the plugin is assumed to already exist and no action is taken.

namestr

A name for the plugin, if None, the name attribute is checked on the Plugin instance and generated if not discovered.

add_replica(ts: distributed.scheduler.TaskState, ws: distributed.scheduler.WorkerState) → None

Note that a worker holds a replica of a task with state=’memory’

async add_worker(comm: distributed.comm.core.Comm, *, address: str, status: str, server_id: str, nthreads: int, name: str, resolve_address: bool = True, now: float, resources: dict[str, float], host_info: None = None, memory_limit: int | None, metrics: dict[str, Any], pid: int = 0, services: dict[str, int], local_directory: str, versions: dict[str, Any], nanny: str, extra: dict, stimulus_id: str) → None

Add a new worker to the cluster

property address: str

The address this Server can be contacted on. If the server is not up, yet, this raises a ValueError.

property address_safe: str

The address this Server can be contacted on. If the server is not up, yet, this returns a "not-running".

async benchmark_hardware() → dict[str, dict[str, float]]

Run a benchmark on the workers for memory, disk, and network bandwidths

Returns

result: dict

A dictionary mapping the names “disk”, “memory”, and “network” to dictionaries mapping sizes to bandwidths. These bandwidths are averaged over many workers running computations across the cluster.

async broadcast(*, msg: dict, workers: list[str] | None = None, hosts: list[str] | None = None, nanny: bool = False, serializers: Any = None, on_error: Literal['raise', 'return', 'return_pickle', 'ignore'] = 'raise') → dict

Broadcast message to workers, return all results

bulk_schedule_unrunnable_after_adding_worker(ws: distributed.scheduler.WorkerState) → dict[str, Literal['released', 'waiting', 'no-worker', 'queued', 'processing', 'memory', 'erred', 'forgotten']]

Send no-worker tasks to processing that this worker can handle.

Returns priority-ordered recommendations.

check_idle_saturated(ws: distributed.scheduler.WorkerState, occ: float = - 1.0) → None

Update the status of the idle and saturated state

The scheduler keeps track of workers that are ..

• Saturated: have enough work to stay busy

• Idle: do not have enough work to stay busy

They are considered saturated if they both have enough tasks to occupy all of their threads, and if the expected runtime of those tasks is large enough.

If distributed.scheduler.worker-saturation is not inf (scheduler-side queuing is enabled), they are considered idle if they have fewer tasks processing than the worker-saturation threshold dictates.

Otherwise, they are considered idle if they have fewer tasks processing than threads, or if their tasks’ total expected runtime is less than half the expected runtime of the same number of average tasks.

This is useful for load balancing and adaptivity.

client_heartbeat(client=None)

Handle heartbeats from Client

client_releases_keys(keys=None, client=None, stimulus_id=None)

Remove keys from client desired list

client_send(client, msg)

Send message to client

async close(fast=None, close_workers=None)

Send cleanup signal to all coroutines then wait until finished

See also

Scheduler.cleanup

close_worker(worker: str) → None

Ask a worker to shut itself down. Do not wait for it to take effect. Note that there is no guarantee that the worker will actually accept the command.

Note that remove_worker() sends the same command internally if close=True.

See also

retire_workers

remove_worker

coerce_address(addr: str | tuple, resolve: bool = True) → str

Coerce possible input addresses to canonical form. resolve can be disabled for testing with fake hostnames.

Handles strings, tuples, or aliases.

coerce_hostname(host: collections.abc.Hashable) → str

Coerce the hostname of a worker.

decide_worker_non_rootish(ts: distributed.scheduler.TaskState) → distributed.scheduler.WorkerState | None

Pick a worker for a runnable non-root task, considering dependencies and restrictions.

Out of eligible workers holding dependencies of ts, selects the worker where, considering worker backlong and data-transfer costs, the task is estimated to start running the soonest.

Returns

ws: WorkerState | None

The worker to assign the task to. If no workers satisfy the restrictions of ts or there are no running workers, returns None, in which case the task should be transitioned to no-worker.

decide_worker_rootish_queuing_disabled(ts: distributed.scheduler.TaskState) → distributed.scheduler.WorkerState | None

Pick a worker for a runnable root-ish task, without queuing.

This attempts to schedule sibling tasks on the same worker, reducing future data transfer. It does not consider the location of dependencies, since they’ll end up on every worker anyway.

It assumes it’s being called on a batch of tasks in priority order, and maintains state in SchedulerState.last_root_worker and SchedulerState.last_root_worker_tasks_left to achieve this.

This will send every runnable task to a worker, often causing root task overproduction.

Returns

ws: WorkerState | None

The worker to assign the task to. If there are no workers in the cluster, returns None, in which case the task should be transitioned to no-worker.

decide_worker_rootish_queuing_enabled() → distributed.scheduler.WorkerState | None

Pick a worker for a runnable root-ish task, if not all are busy.

Picks the least-busy worker out of the idle workers (idle workers have fewer tasks running than threads, as set by distributed.scheduler.worker-saturation). It does not consider the location of dependencies, since they’ll end up on every worker anyway.

If all workers are full, returns None, meaning the task should transition to queued. The scheduler will wait to send it to a worker until a thread opens up. This ensures that downstream tasks always run before new root tasks are started.

This does not try to schedule sibling tasks on the same worker; in fact, it usually does the opposite. Even though this increases subsequent data transfer, it typically reduces overall memory use by eliminating root task overproduction.

Returns

ws: WorkerState | None

The worker to assign the task to. If there are no idle workers, returns None, in which case the task should be transitioned to queued.

async delete_worker_data(worker_address: str, keys: collections.abc.Collection[str], stimulus_id: str) → None

Delete data from a worker and update the corresponding worker/task states

Parameters

worker_address: str

Worker address to delete keys from

keys: list[str]

List of keys to delete on the specified worker

async dump_cluster_state_to_url(url: str, exclude: collections.abc.Collection[str], format: Literal['msgpack', 'yaml'], **storage_options: dict[str, Any]) → None

Write a cluster state dump to an fsspec-compatible URL.

async feed(comm: distributed.comm.core.Comm, function: bytes | None = None, setup: bytes | None = None, teardown: bytes | None = None, interval: str | float = '1s', **kwargs: Any) → None

Provides a data Comm to external requester

Caution: this runs arbitrary Python code on the scheduler. This should eventually be phased out. It is mostly used by diagnostics.

async finished()

Wait until the server has finished

async gather(keys, serializers=None)

Collect data from workers to the scheduler

async gather_on_worker(worker_address: str, who_has: dict[str, list[str]]) → set

Peer-to-peer copy of keys from multiple workers to a single worker

Parameters

worker_address: str

Recipient worker address to copy keys to

who_has: dict[Hashable, list[str]]

{key: [sender address, sender address, …], key: …}

Returns

returns:

set of keys that failed to be copied

async get_cluster_state(exclude: collections.abc.Collection[str]) → dict

Produce the state dict used in a cluster state dump

get_comm_cost(ts: distributed.scheduler.TaskState, ws: distributed.scheduler.WorkerState) → float

Get the estimated communication cost (in s.) to compute the task on the given worker.

get_connection_counters() → dict[str, int]

A dict with various connection counters

See also

Server.incoming_comms_open

Server.incoming_comms_active

Server.outgoing_comms_open

Server.outgoing_comms_active

get_logs(start=0, n=None, timestamps=False)

Fetch log entries for this node

Parameters

startfloat, optional

A time (in seconds) to begin filtering log entries from

nint, optional

Maximum number of log entries to return from filtered results

timestampsbool, default False

Do we want log entries to include the time they were generated?

Returns

List of tuples containing the log level, message, and (optional) timestamp for each filtered entry, newest first

async get_story(keys_or_stimuli: collections.abc.Iterable[str]) → list[distributed.scheduler.Transition]

RPC hook for SchedulerState.story().

Note that the msgpack serialization/deserialization round-trip will transform the Transition namedtuples into regular tuples.

get_task_duration(ts: distributed.scheduler.TaskState) → float

Get the estimated computation cost of the given task (not including any communication cost).

If no data has been observed, value of distributed.scheduler.default-task-durations are used. If none is set for this task, distributed.scheduler.unknown-task-duration is used instead.

get_worker_service_addr(worker: str, service_name: str, protocol: bool = False) → tuple[str, int] | str | None

Get the (host, port) address of the named service on the worker. Returns None if the service doesn’t exist.

Parameters

workeraddress

service_namestr

Common services include ‘bokeh’ and ‘nanny’

protocolboolean

Whether or not to include a full address with protocol (True) or just a (host, port) pair

handle_comm(comm)

Start a background task that dispatches new communications to coroutine-handlers

handle_long_running(key: str, worker: str, compute_duration: float | None, stimulus_id: str) → None

A task has seceded from the thread pool

We stop the task from being stolen in the future, and change task duration accounting as if the task has stopped.

async handle_request_refresh_who_has(keys: collections.abc.Iterable[str], worker: str, stimulus_id: str) → None

Asynchronous request (through bulk comms) from a Worker to refresh the who_has for some keys. Not to be confused with scheduler.who_has, which is a synchronous RPC request from a Client.

async handle_worker(comm: distributed.comm.core.Comm, worker: str) → None

Listen to responses from a single worker

This is the main loop for scheduler-worker interaction

See also

Scheduler.handle_client

Equivalent coroutine for clients

property host

The host this Server is running on.

This will raise ValueError if the Server is listening on a non-IP based protocol.

identity()

Basic information about ourselves and our cluster

property incoming_comms_active: int

The number of connections currently handling a remote RPC

property incoming_comms_open: int

The number of total incoming connections listening to remote RPCs

is_rootish(ts: distributed.scheduler.TaskState) → bool

Whether ts is a root or root-like task.

Root-ish tasks are part of a group that’s much larger than the cluster, and have few or no dependencies.

property listen_address

The address this Server is listening on. This may be a wildcard address such as tcp://0.0.0.0:1234.

new_task(key: str, spec: object, state: Literal['released', 'waiting', 'no-worker', 'queued', 'processing', 'memory', 'erred', 'forgotten'], computation: distributed.scheduler.Computation | None = None) → distributed.scheduler.TaskState

Create a new task, and associated states

property outgoing_comms_active: int

The number of outgoing connections that are currently used to execute a RPC

property outgoing_comms_open: int

The number of connections currently open and waiting for a remote RPC

property port

The port number this Server is listening on.

This will raise ValueError if the Server is listening on a non-IP based protocol.

async proxy(msg: dict, worker: str, serializers: Any = None) → Any

Proxy a communication through the scheduler to some other worker

async rebalance(keys: collections.abc.Iterable[str] | None = None, workers: collections.abc.Iterable[str] | None = None, stimulus_id: str | None = None) → dict

Rebalance keys so that each worker ends up with roughly the same process memory (managed+unmanaged).

Warning

This operation is generally not well tested against normal operation of the scheduler. It is not recommended to use it while waiting on computations.

Algorithm

1. Find the mean occupancy of the cluster, defined as data managed by dask + unmanaged process memory that has been there for at least 30 seconds (distributed.worker.memory.recent-to-old-time). This lets us ignore temporary spikes caused by task heap usage.

   Alternatively, you may change how memory is measured both for the individual workers as well as to calculate the mean through distributed.worker.memory.rebalance.measure. Namely, this can be useful to disregard inaccurate OS memory measurements.

2. Discard workers whose occupancy is within 5% of the mean cluster occupancy (distributed.worker.memory.rebalance.sender-recipient-gap / 2). This helps avoid data from bouncing around the cluster repeatedly.

3. Workers above the mean are senders; those below are recipients.

4. Discard senders whose absolute occupancy is below 30% (distributed.worker.memory.rebalance.sender-min). In other words, no data is moved regardless of imbalancing as long as all workers are below 30%.

5. Discard recipients whose absolute occupancy is above 60% (distributed.worker.memory.rebalance.recipient-max). Note that this threshold by default is the same as distributed.worker.memory.target to prevent workers from accepting data and immediately spilling it out to disk.

6. Iteratively pick the sender and recipient that are farthest from the mean and move the least recently inserted key between the two, until either all senders or all recipients fall within 5% of the mean.

   A recipient will be skipped if it already has a copy of the data. In other words, this method does not degrade replication. A key will be skipped if there are no recipients available with enough memory to accept the key and that don’t already hold a copy.

The least recently insertd (LRI) policy is a greedy choice with the advantage of being O(1), trivial to implement (it relies on python dict insertion-sorting) and hopefully good enough in most cases. Discarded alternative policies were:

• Largest first. O(n*log(n)) save for non-trivial additional data structures and risks causing the largest chunks of data to repeatedly move around the cluster like pinballs.

• Least recently used (LRU). This information is currently available on the workers only and not trivial to replicate on the scheduler; transmitting it over the network would be very expensive. Also, note that dask will go out of its way to minimise the amount of time intermediate keys are held in memory, so in such a case LRI is a close approximation of LRU.

Parameters

keys: optional

allowlist of dask keys that should be considered for moving. All other keys will be ignored. Note that this offers no guarantee that a key will actually be moved (e.g. because it is unnecessary or because there are no viable recipient workers for it).

workers: optional

allowlist of workers addresses to be considered as senders or recipients. All other workers will be ignored. The mean cluster occupancy will be calculated only using the allowed workers.

async register_nanny_plugin(comm, plugin, name=None)

Registers a setup function, and call it on every worker

async register_scheduler_plugin(plugin: bytes | distributed.diagnostics.plugin.SchedulerPlugin, name: str | None = None, idempotent: bool = False) → None

Register a plugin on the scheduler.

async register_worker_plugin(comm, plugin, name=None)

Registers a worker plugin on all running and future workers

remove_all_replicas(ts: distributed.scheduler.TaskState) → None

Remove all replicas of a task from all workers

remove_client(client: str, stimulus_id: str | None = None) → None

Remove client from network

remove_plugin(name: str | None = None, plugin: distributed.diagnostics.plugin.SchedulerPlugin | None = None) → None

Remove external plugin from scheduler

Parameters

namestr

Name of the plugin to remove

remove_replica(ts: distributed.scheduler.TaskState, ws: distributed.scheduler.WorkerState) → None

Note that a worker no longer holds a replica of a task

async remove_worker(address: str, *, stimulus_id: str, safe: bool = False, close: bool = True) → Literal['OK', 'already-removed']

Remove worker from cluster.

We do this when a worker reports that it plans to leave or when it appears to be unresponsive. This may send its tasks back to a released state.

See also

retire_workers

close_worker

async replicate(comm=None, keys=None, n=None, workers=None, branching_factor=2, delete=True, lock=True, stimulus_id=None)

Replicate data throughout cluster

This performs a tree copy of the data throughout the network individually on each piece of data.

Parameters

keys: Iterable

list of keys to replicate

n: int

Number of replications we expect to see within the cluster

branching_factor: int, optional

The number of workers that can copy data in each generation. The larger the branching factor, the more data we copy in a single step, but the more a given worker risks being swamped by data requests.

See also

Scheduler.rebalance

report(msg: dict, ts: distributed.scheduler.TaskState | None = None, client: str | None = None) → None

Publish updates to all listening Queues and Comms

If the message contains a key then we only send the message to those comms that care about the key.

request_acquire_replicas(addr: str, keys: collections.abc.Iterable[str], *, stimulus_id: str) → None

Asynchronously ask a worker to acquire a replica of the listed keys from other workers. This is a fire-and-forget operation which offers no feedback for success or failure, and is intended for housekeeping and not for computation.

request_remove_replicas(addr: str, keys: list[str], *, stimulus_id: str) → None

Asynchronously ask a worker to discard its replica of the listed keys. This must never be used to destroy the last replica of a key. This is a fire-and-forget operation, intended for housekeeping and not for computation.

The replica disappears immediately from TaskState.who_has on the Scheduler side; if the worker refuses to delete, e.g. because the task is a dependency of another task running on it, it will (also asynchronously) inform the scheduler to re-add itself to who_has. If the worker agrees to discard the task, there is no feedback.

async restart(client=None, timeout=30, wait_for_workers=True)

Restart all workers. Reset local state. Optionally wait for workers to return.

Workers without nannies are shut down, hoping an external deployment system will restart them. Therefore, if not using nannies and your deployment system does not automatically restart workers, restart will just shut down all workers, then time out!

After restart, all connected workers are new, regardless of whether TimeoutError was raised. Any workers that failed to shut down in time are removed, and may or may not shut down on their own in the future.

Parameters

timeout:

How long to wait for workers to shut down and come back, if wait_for_workers is True, otherwise just how long to wait for workers to shut down. Raises asyncio.TimeoutError if this is exceeded.

wait_for_workers:

Whether to wait for all workers to reconnect, or just for them to shut down (default True). Use restart(wait_for_workers=False) combined with Client.wait_for_workers() for granular control over how many workers to wait for.

See also

Client.restart

Client.restart_workers

async retire_workers(workers: list[str] | None = None, *, names: list | None = None, close_workers: bool = False, remove: bool = True, stimulus_id: str | None = None, **kwargs: Any) → dict[str, Any]

Gracefully retire workers from cluster. Any key that is in memory exclusively on the retired workers is replicated somewhere else.

Parameters

workers: list[str] (optional)

List of worker addresses to retire.

names: list (optional)

List of worker names to retire. Mutually exclusive with workers. If neither workers nor names are provided, we call workers_to_close which finds a good set.

close_workers: bool (defaults to False)

Whether or not to actually close the worker explicitly from here. Otherwise we expect some external job scheduler to finish off the worker.

remove: bool (defaults to True)

Whether or not to remove the worker metadata immediately or else wait for the worker to contact us.

If close_workers=False and remove=False, this method just flushes the tasks in memory out of the workers and then returns. If close_workers=True and remove=False, this method will return while the workers are still in the cluster, although they won’t accept new tasks. If close_workers=False or for whatever reason a worker doesn’t accept the close command, it will be left permanently unable to accept new tasks and it is expected to be closed in some other way.

**kwargs: dict

Extra options to pass to workers_to_close to determine which workers we should drop

Returns

Dictionary mapping worker ID/address to dictionary of information about

that worker for each retired worker.

If there are keys that exist in memory only on the workers being retired and it

was impossible to replicate them somewhere else (e.g. because there aren’t

any other running workers), the workers holding such keys won’t be retired and

won’t appear in the returned dict.

See also

Scheduler.workers_to_close

run_function(comm: distributed.comm.core.Comm, function: collections.abc.Callable, args: tuple = (), kwargs: dict | None = None, wait: bool = True) → Any

Run a function within this process

See also

Client.run_on_scheduler

async scatter(comm=None, data=None, workers=None, client=None, broadcast=False, timeout=2)

Send data out to workers

See also

Scheduler.broadcast

send_all(client_msgs: dict[str, list[dict[str, Any]]], worker_msgs: dict[str, list[dict[str, Any]]]) → None

Send messages to client and workers

send_task_to_worker(worker: str, ts: distributed.scheduler.TaskState, duration: float = - 1) → None

Send a single computational task to a worker

start_http_server(routes, dashboard_address, default_port=0, ssl_options=None)

This creates an HTTP Server running on this node

start_periodic_callbacks()

Start Periodic Callbacks consistently

This starts all PeriodicCallbacks stored in self.periodic_callbacks if they are not yet running. It does this safely by checking that it is using the correct event loop.

async start_unsafe()

Clear out old state and restart all running coroutines

stimulus_cancel(keys: collections.abc.Sequence[str], client: str, force: bool = False) → None

Stop execution on a list of keys

stimulus_queue_slots_maybe_opened(*, stimulus_id: str) → None

Respond to an event which may have opened spots on worker threadpools

Selects the appropriate number of tasks from the front of the queue according to the total number of task slots available on workers (potentially 0), and transitions them to processing.

Notes

Other transitions related to this stimulus should be fully processed beforehand, so any tasks that became runnable are already in processing. Otherwise, overproduction can occur if queued tasks get scheduled before downstream tasks.

Must be called after check_idle_saturated; i.e. idle_task_count must be up to date.

stimulus_task_erred(key=None, worker=None, exception=None, stimulus_id=None, traceback=None, **kwargs)

Mark that a task has erred on a particular worker

stimulus_task_finished(key, worker, stimulus_id, run_id, **kwargs)

Mark that a task has finished execution on a particular worker

story(*keys_or_tasks_or_stimuli: str | distributed.scheduler.TaskState) → list[distributed.scheduler.Transition]

Get all transitions that touch one of the input keys or stimulus_id’s

transition(key: str, finish: Literal['released', 'waiting', 'no-worker', 'queued', 'processing', 'memory', 'erred', 'forgotten'], stimulus_id: str, **kwargs: Any) → dict[str, Literal['released', 'waiting', 'no-worker', 'queued', 'processing', 'memory', 'erred', 'forgotten']]

Transition a key from its current state to the finish state

Returns

Dictionary of recommendations for future transitions

See also

Scheduler.transitions

transitive version of this function

Examples

>>> self.transition('x', 'waiting')
{'x': 'processing'}

transition_processing_erred(key: str, stimulus_id: str, *, worker: str, cause: str | None = None, exception: distributed.protocol.serialize.Serialized | None = None, traceback: distributed.protocol.serialize.Serialized | None = None, exception_text: str | None = None, traceback_text: str | None = None, **kwargs: Any) → tuple[dict[str, Literal['released', 'waiting', 'no-worker', 'queued', 'processing', 'memory', 'erred', 'forgotten']], dict[str, list[dict[str, Any]]], dict[str, list[dict[str, Any]]]]

Processed a recommended transition processing -> erred.

Parameters

key

Key of the task to transition

stimulus_id

ID of the stimulus causing the transition

worker

Address of the worker where the task erred. Not necessarily ts.processing_on.

cause

Address of the task that caused this task to be transitioned to erred

exception

Exception caused by the task

traceback

Traceback caused by the task

exception_text

String representation of the exception

traceback_text

String representation of the traceback

Returns

Recommendations, client messages and worker messages to process

transition_waiting_memory(key: str, stimulus_id: str, *, nbytes: int | None = None, type: bytes | None = None, typename: str | None = None, worker: str, **kwargs: Any) → tuple[dict[str, Literal['released', 'waiting', 'no-worker', 'queued', 'processing', 'memory', 'erred', 'forgotten']], dict[str, list[dict[str, Any]]], dict[str, list[dict[str, Any]]]]

This transition exclusively happens in a race condition where the scheduler believes that the only copy of a dependency task has just been lost, so it transitions all dependents back to waiting, but actually a replica has already been acquired by a worker computing the dependency - the scheduler just doesn’t know yet - and the execution finishes before the cancellation message from the scheduler has a chance to reach the worker. Shortly, the cancellation request will reach the worker, thus deleting the data from memory.

transition_waiting_processing(key: str, stimulus_id: str) → tuple[dict[str, Literal['released', 'waiting', 'no-worker', 'queued', 'processing', 'memory', 'erred', 'forgotten']], dict[str, list[dict[str, Any]]], dict[str, list[dict[str, Any]]]]

Possibly schedule a ready task. This is the primary dispatch for ready tasks.

If there’s no appropriate worker for the task (but the task is otherwise runnable), it will be recommended to no-worker or queued.

transitions(recommendations: dict[str, Literal['released', 'waiting', 'no-worker', 'queued', 'processing', 'memory', 'erred', 'forgotten']], stimulus_id: str) → None

Process transitions until none are left

This includes feedback from previous transitions and continues until we reach a steady state

async unregister_nanny_plugin(comm, name)

Unregisters a worker plugin

async unregister_worker_plugin(comm, name)

Unregisters a worker plugin

update_data(*, who_has: dict[str, list[str]], nbytes: dict[str, int], client: str | None = None) → None

Learn that new data has entered the network from an external source

valid_workers(ts: distributed.scheduler.TaskState) → set[distributed.scheduler.WorkerState] | None

Return set of currently valid workers for key

If all workers are valid then this returns None, in which case any running worker can be used. Otherwise, the subset of running workers valid for this task is returned. This checks tracks the following state:

• worker_restrictions

• host_restrictions

• resource_restrictions

worker_objective(ts: distributed.scheduler.TaskState, ws: distributed.scheduler.WorkerState) → tuple

Objective function to determine which worker should get the task

Minimize expected start time. If a tie then break with data storage.

worker_send(worker: str, msg: dict[str, Any]) → None

Send message to worker

This also handles connection failures by adding a callback to remove the worker on the next cycle.

workers_list(workers: collections.abc.Iterable[str] | None) → list[str]

List of qualifying workers

Takes a list of worker addresses or hostnames. Returns a list of all worker addresses that match

workers_to_close(memory_ratio: int | float | None = None, n: int | None = None, key: collections.abc.Callable[[distributed.scheduler.WorkerState], collections.abc.Hashable] | bytes | None = None, minimum: int | None = None, target: int | None = None, attribute: str = 'address') → list[str]

Find workers that we can close with low cost

This returns a list of workers that are good candidates to retire. These workers are not running anything and are storing relatively little data relative to their peers. If all workers are idle then we still maintain enough workers to have enough RAM to store our data, with a comfortable buffer.

This is for use with systems like distributed.deploy.adaptive.

Parameters

memory_ratioNumber

Amount of extra space we want to have for our stored data. Defaults to 2, or that we want to have twice as much memory as we currently have data.

nint

Number of workers to close

minimumint

Minimum number of workers to keep around

keyCallable(WorkerState)

An optional callable mapping a WorkerState object to a group affiliation. Groups will be closed together. This is useful when closing workers must be done collectively, such as by hostname.

targetint

Target number of workers to have after we close

attributestr

The attribute of the WorkerState object to return, like “address” or “name”. Defaults to “address”.

Returns

to_close: list of worker addresses that are OK to close

See also

Scheduler.retire_workers

Examples

>>> scheduler.workers_to_close()
['tcp://192.168.0.1:1234', 'tcp://192.168.0.2:1234']

Group workers by hostname prior to closing

>>> scheduler.workers_to_close(key=lambda ws: ws.host)
['tcp://192.168.0.1:1234', 'tcp://192.168.0.1:4567']

Remove two workers

>>> scheduler.workers_to_close(n=2)

Keep enough workers to have twice as much memory as we we need.

>>> scheduler.workers_to_close(memory_ratio=2)

class distributed.scheduler.TaskState(key: str, run_spec: object, state: Literal['released', 'waiting', 'no-worker', 'queued', 'processing', 'memory', 'erred', 'forgotten'])

A simple object holding information about a task.

Not to be confused with distributed.worker_state_machine.TaskState, which holds similar information on the Worker side.

actor: bool

Whether this task is an Actor

add_dependency(other: distributed.scheduler.TaskState) → None

Add another task as a dependency of this task

annotations: dict[str, Any]

Task annotations

dependencies: set[distributed.scheduler.TaskState]

The set of tasks this task depends on for proper execution. Only tasks still alive are listed in this set. If, for whatever reason, this task also depends on a forgotten task, the has_lost_dependencies flag is set.

A task can only be executed once all its dependencies have already been successfully executed and have their result stored on at least one worker. This is tracked by progressively draining the waiting_on set.

dependents: set[distributed.scheduler.TaskState]

The set of tasks which depend on this task. Only tasks still alive are listed in this set. This is the reverse mapping of dependencies.

erred_on: set[str]

Worker addresses on which errors appeared, causing this task to be in an error state.

exception: distributed.protocol.serialize.Serialized | None

If this task failed executing, the exception object is stored here.

exception_blame: distributed.scheduler.TaskState | None

If this task or one of its dependencies failed executing, the failed task is stored here (possibly itself).

exception_text: str

string representation of exception

group: distributed.scheduler.TaskGroup

The group of tasks to which this one belongs

group_key: str

Same as of group.name

has_lost_dependencies: bool

Whether any of the dependencies of this task has been forgotten. For memory consumption reasons, forgotten tasks are not kept in memory even though they may have dependent tasks. When a task is forgotten, therefore, each of its dependents has their has_lost_dependencies attribute set to True.

If has_lost_dependencies is true, this task cannot go into the “processing” state anymore.

host_restrictions: set[str]

A set of hostnames where this task can be run (or None if empty). Usually this is empty unless the task has been specifically restricted to only run on certain hosts. A hostname may correspond to one or several connected workers.

key: str

The key is the unique identifier of a task, generally formed from the name of the function, followed by a hash of the function and arguments, like 'inc-ab31c010444977004d656610d2d421ec'.

loose_restrictions: bool

False

Each of host_restrictions, worker_restrictions and resource_restrictions is a hard constraint: if no worker is available satisfying those restrictions, the task cannot go into the “processing” state and will instead go into the “no-worker” state.

True

The above restrictions are mere preferences: if no worker is available satisfying those restrictions, the task can still go into the “processing” state and be sent for execution to another connected worker.

metadata: dict[str, Any]

Metadata related to task

nbytes: int

The number of bytes, as determined by sizeof, of the result of a finished task. This number is used for diagnostics and to help prioritize work. Set to -1 for unfinished tasks.

prefix: distributed.scheduler.TaskPrefix

The broad class of tasks to which this task belongs like “inc” or “read_csv”

priority: tuple[float, ...] | None

The priority provides each task with a relative ranking which is used to break ties when many tasks are being considered for execution.

This ranking is generally a 2-item tuple. The first (and dominant) item corresponds to when it was submitted. Generally, earlier tasks take precedence. The second item is determined by the client, and is a way to prioritize tasks within a large graph that may be important, such as if they are on the critical path, or good to run in order to release many dependencies. This is explained further in Scheduling Policy.

processing_on: distributed.scheduler.WorkerState | None

If this task is in the “processing” state, which worker is currently processing it. This attribute is kept in sync with WorkerState.processing.

resource_restrictions: dict[str, float]

Resources required by this task, such as {'gpu': 1} or {'memory': 1e9} These are user-defined names and are matched against the : contents of each WorkerState.resources dictionary.

retries: int

The number of times this task can automatically be retried in case of failure. If a task fails executing (the worker returns with an error), its retries attribute is checked. If it is equal to 0, the task is marked “erred”. If it is greater than 0, the retries attribute is decremented and execution is attempted again.

run_id: int | None

The unique identifier of a specific execution of a task. This identifier is used to sign a task such that the assigned worker is expected to return the same identifier in the task-finished message. This is used to correlate responses. Only the most recently assigned worker is trusted. All other results will be rejected.

run_spec: object

A specification of how to run the task. The type and meaning of this value is opaque to the scheduler, as it is only interpreted by the worker to which the task is sent for executing.

As a special case, this attribute may also be None, in which case the task is “pure data” (such as, for example, a piece of data loaded in the scheduler using Client.scatter()). A “pure data” task cannot be computed again if its value is lost.

property state: Literal['released', 'waiting', 'no-worker', 'queued', 'processing', 'memory', 'erred', 'forgotten']

This task’s current state. Valid states are released, waiting, no-worker, processing, memory, erred and forgotten. If it is forgotten, the task isn’t stored in the tasks dictionary anymore and will probably disappear soon from memory.

suspicious: int

The number of times this task has been involved in a worker death.

Some tasks may cause workers to die (such as calling os._exit(0)). When a worker dies, all of the tasks on that worker are reassigned to others. This combination of behaviors can cause a bad task to catastrophically destroy all workers on the cluster, one after another. Whenever a worker dies, we mark each task currently processing on that worker (as recorded by WorkerState.processing) as suspicious. If a task is involved in three deaths (or some other fixed constant) then we mark the task as erred.

traceback: distributed.protocol.serialize.Serialized | None

If this task failed executing, the traceback object is stored here.

traceback_text: str

string representation of traceback

type: str

The type of the object as a string. Only present for tasks that have been computed.

waiters: set[distributed.scheduler.TaskState]

The set of tasks which need this task to remain alive. This is always a subset of dependents. Each time one of the dependents has finished processing, it is removed from the waiters set.

Once both waiters and who_wants become empty, this task can be released (if it has a non-empty run_spec) or forgotten (otherwise) by the scheduler, and by any workers in who_has.

Note

Counter-intuitively, waiting_on and waiters are not reverse mappings of each other.

waiting_on: set[distributed.scheduler.TaskState]

The set of tasks this task is waiting on before it can be executed. This is always a subset of dependencies. Each time one of the dependencies has finished processing, it is removed from the waiting_on set.

Once waiting_on becomes empty, this task can move from the “waiting” state to the “processing” state (unless one of the dependencies errored out, in which case this task is instead marked “erred”).

who_has: set[distributed.scheduler.WorkerState]

The set of workers who have this task’s result in memory. It is non-empty iff the task is in the “memory” state. There can be more than one worker in this set if, for example, Client.scatter() or Client.replicate() was used.

This is the reverse mapping of WorkerState.has_what.

who_wants: set[distributed.scheduler.ClientState]

The set of clients who want the result of this task to remain alive. This is the reverse mapping of ClientState.wants_what.

When a client submits a graph to the scheduler it also specifies which output tasks it desires, such that their results are not released from memory.

Once a task has finished executing (i.e. moves into the “memory” or “erred” state), the clients in who_wants are notified.

Once both waiters and who_wants become empty, this task can be released (if it has a non-empty run_spec) or forgotten (otherwise) by the scheduler, and by any workers in who_has.

worker_restrictions: set[str]

A set of complete worker addresses where this can be run (or None if empty). Usually this is empty unless the task has been specifically restricted to only run on certain workers. Note this is tracking worker addresses, not worker states, since the specific workers may not be connected at this time.

class distributed.scheduler.WorkerState(*, address: str, status: distributed.core.Status, pid: int, name: object, nthreads: int = 0, memory_limit: int, local_directory: str, nanny: str, server_id: str, services: dict[str, int] | None = None, versions: dict[str, Any] | None = None, extra: dict[str, Any] | None = None, scheduler: distributed.scheduler.SchedulerState | None = None)

A simple object holding information about a worker.

Not to be confused with distributed.worker_state_machine.WorkerState.

actors: set[distributed.scheduler.TaskState]

A set of all TaskStates on this worker that are actors. This only includes those actors whose state actually lives on this worker, not actors to which this worker has a reference.

add_replica(ts: distributed.scheduler.TaskState) → None

The worker acquired a replica of task

add_to_processing(ts: distributed.scheduler.TaskState) → None

Assign a task to this worker for compute.

address: str

This worker’s unique key. This can be its connected address (such as "tcp://127.0.0.1:8891") or an alias (such as "alice").

clean() → distributed.scheduler.WorkerState

Return a version of this object that is appropriate for serialization

executing: dict[distributed.scheduler.TaskState, float]

A dictionary of tasks that are currently being run on this worker. Each task state is associated with the duration in seconds which the task has been running.

extra: dict[str, Any]

Arbitrary additional metadata to be added to identity()

property has_what: collections.abc.Set[distributed.scheduler.TaskState]

An insertion-sorted set-like of tasks which currently reside on this worker. All the tasks here are in the “memory” state. This is the reverse mapping of TaskState.who_has.

This is a read-only public accessor. The data is implemented as a dict without values, because rebalance() relies on dicts being insertion-sorted.

last_seen: float

The last time we received a heartbeat from this worker, in local scheduler time.

long_running: set[distributed.scheduler.TaskState]

Running tasks that invoked distributed.secede()

property memory: distributed.scheduler.MemoryState

Polished memory metrics for the worker.

Design note on managed memory

There are two measures available for managed memory:

• self.nbytes

• self.metrics["managed_bytes"]

At rest, the two numbers must be identical. However, self.nbytes is immediately updated through the batched comms as soon as each task lands in memory on the worker; self.metrics["managed_bytes"] instead is updated by the heartbeat, which can lag several seconds behind.

Below we are mixing likely newer managed memory info from self.nbytes with process and spilled memory from the heartbeat. This is deliberate, so that managed memory total is updated more frequently.

Managed memory directly and immediately contributes to optimistic memory, which is in turn used in Active Memory Manager heuristics (at the moment of writing; more uses will likely be added in the future). So it’s important to have it up to date; much more than it is for process memory.

Having up-to-date managed memory info as soon as the scheduler learns about task completion also substantially simplifies unit tests.

The flip side of this design is that it may cause some noise in the unmanaged_recent measure. e.g.:

1. Delete 100MB of managed data

2. The updated managed memory reaches the scheduler faster than the updated process memory

3. There’s a blip where the scheduler thinks that there’s a sudden 100MB increase in unmanaged_recent, since process memory hasn’t changed but managed memory has decreased by 100MB

4. When the heartbeat arrives, process memory goes down and so does the unmanaged_recent.

This is OK - one of the main reasons for the unmanaged_recent / unmanaged_old split is exactly to concentrate all the noise in unmanaged_recent and exclude it from optimistic memory, which is used for heuristics.

Something that is less OK, but also less frequent, is that the sudden deletion of spilled keys will cause a negative blip in managed memory:

1. Delete 100MB of spilled data

2. The updated managed memory total reaches the scheduler faster than the updated spilled portion

3. This causes the managed memory to temporarily plummet and be replaced by unmanaged_recent, while spilled memory remains unaltered

4. When the heartbeat arrives, managed goes back up, unmanaged_recent goes back down, and spilled goes down by 100MB as it should have to begin with.

GH#6002 will let us solve this.

memory_limit: int

Memory available to the worker, in bytes

nanny: str

Address of the associated Nanny, if present

nbytes: int

The total memory size, in bytes, used by the tasks this worker holds in memory (i.e. the tasks in this worker’s has_what).

needs_what: dict[distributed.scheduler.TaskState, int]

Keys that may need to be fetched to this worker, and the number of tasks that need them. All tasks are currently in memory on a worker other than this one. Much like processing, this does not exactly reflect worker state: keys here may be queued to fetch, in flight, or already in memory on the worker.

nthreads: int

The number of CPU threads made available on this worker

processing: set[distributed.scheduler.TaskState]

All the tasks here are in the “processing” state. This attribute is kept in sync with TaskState.processing_on.

remove_from_processing(ts: distributed.scheduler.TaskState) → None

Remove a task from a workers processing

remove_replica(ts: distributed.scheduler.TaskState) → None

The worker no longer has a task in memory

resources: dict[str, float]

The available resources on this worker, e.g. {"GPU": 2}. These are abstract quantities that constrain certain tasks from running at the same time on this worker.

status: distributed.core.Status

Read-only worker status, synced one way from the remote Worker object

used_resources: dict[str, float]

The sum of each resource used by all tasks allocated to this worker. The numbers in this dictionary can only be less or equal than those in this worker’s resources.

versions: dict[str, Any]

Output of distributed.versions.get_versions() on the worker

class distributed.scheduler.ClientState(client: str, *, versions: dict[str, Any] | None = None)

A simple object holding information about a client.

client_key: str

A unique identifier for this client. This is generally an opaque string generated by the client itself.

last_seen: float

The last time we received a heartbeat from this client, in local scheduler time.

versions: dict[str, Any]

Output of distributed.versions.get_versions() on the client

wants_what: set[distributed.scheduler.TaskState]

A set of tasks this client wants to be kept in memory, so that it can download its result when desired. This is the reverse mapping of TaskState.who_wants. Tasks are typically removed from this set when the corresponding object in the client’s space (for example a Future or a Dask collection) gets garbage-collected.

distributed.scheduler.decide_worker(ts: distributed.scheduler.TaskState, all_workers: collections.abc.Iterable[distributed.scheduler.WorkerState], valid_workers: set[distributed.scheduler.WorkerState] | None, objective: collections.abc.Callable[[distributed.scheduler.WorkerState], Any]) → distributed.scheduler.WorkerState | None

Decide which worker should take task ts.

We choose the worker that has the data on which ts depends.

If several workers have dependencies then we choose the less-busy worker.

Optionally provide valid_workers of where jobs are allowed to occur (if all workers are allowed to take the task, pass None instead).

If the task requires data communication because no eligible worker has all the dependencies already, then we choose to minimize the number of bytes sent between workers. This is determined by calling the objective function.

class distributed.scheduler.MemoryState(*, process: int, unmanaged_old: int, managed: int, spilled: int)

Memory readings on a worker or on the whole cluster.

See Worker Memory Management.

Attributes / properties:

managed_total

Sum of the output of sizeof() for all dask keys held by the worker in memory, plus number of bytes spilled to disk

managed

Sum of the output of sizeof() for the dask keys held in RAM. Note that this may be inaccurate, which may cause inaccurate unmanaged memory (see below).

spilled

Number of bytes for the dask keys spilled to the hard drive. Note that this is the size on disk; size in memory may be different due to compression and inaccuracies in sizeof(). In other words, given the same keys, ‘managed’ will change depending on the keys being in memory or spilled.

process

Total RSS memory measured by the OS on the worker process. This is always exactly equal to managed + unmanaged.

unmanaged

process - managed. This is the sum of

• Python interpreter and modules

• global variables

• memory temporarily allocated by the dask tasks that are currently running

• memory fragmentation

• memory leaks

• memory not yet garbage collected

• memory not yet free()’d by the Python memory manager to the OS

unmanaged_old

Minimum of the ‘unmanaged’ measures over the last distributed.memory.recent-to-old-time seconds

unmanaged_recent

unmanaged - unmanaged_old; in other words process memory that has been recently allocated but is not accounted for by dask; hopefully it’s mostly a temporary spike.

optimistic

managed + unmanaged_old; in other words the memory held long-term by the process under the hopeful assumption that all unmanaged_recent memory is a temporary spike

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