Failed with java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to claim exclusive exclusive lock on file

[NaveenNatarajan97]

We are trying to use Chronicle Queue with the below-mentioned versions:-

1. chronicle-threads-2.21.87.jar
2. chronicle-bytes-2.21.93.jar
3. chronicle-core-2.21.95.jar
4. chronicle-wire-2.21.93.jar
5. chronicle-queue-5.21.96.jar

Below is the error message we are encountering.

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to claim exclusive exclusive lock on file ./ChronicleTesting/124124queue65/metadata.cq4t
        at net.openhft.chronicle.queue.impl.table.SingleTableStore.doWithLock(SingleTableStore.java:160)
        at net.openhft.chronicle.queue.impl.table.SingleTableStore.doWithExclusiveLock(SingleTableStore.java:125)
        at net.openhft.chronicle.queue.impl.table.SingleTableBuilder.build(SingleTableBuilder.java:137)
        at net.openhft.chronicle.queue.impl.single.SingleChronicleQueueBuilder.initializeMetadata(SingleChronicleQueueBuilder.java:444)
        at net.openhft.chronicle.queue.impl.single.SingleChronicleQueueBuilder.preBuild(SingleChronicleQueueBuilder.java:1077)
        at net.openhft.chronicle.queue.impl.single.SingleChronicleQueueBuilder.build(SingleChronicleQueueBuilder.java:327)
        at Main.run(Main.java:65)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

To reproduce this issue, we are attaching a Standalone Utility for the above case.

About Standalone Utility:-
This Standalone utility will Write, Read, and Clear the queue, and go to sleep. and continues 'n' number of iteration.

Command line argument:-
java -Xmx10240M -jar ChronicleQueueGenerator-WriteReadClear.jar 25 200 1000 30 1000

Syntax:-
java -Xmx10240M -jar ChronicleQueueGenerator-WriteReadClear.jar <arg_1> <arg_2> <arg_3> <arg_4> <arg_5>

Argument List:-
Arg_1: No threads.
Arg_2: No queues for each thread.
Arg_3: No of sleep duration (in ms).
Arg_4: No of bytes allocated for each queue content that needs to be populated.
Arg_5: No of iterations the write, read, and clean need to happen.

Example with explaination:-
java -Xmx10240M -jar ChronicleQueueGenerator-WriteReadClear.jar 25 200 1000 30 1000

1GB of heap space.
No. of. Threads:- 25
No. of Queues:- 200
No. of sleep duration:- 1000ms
Bytes allocated:- 30 bytes
No of iteration:- 1000

Queues will be created under the ChronicleTesting directory, where the jar is being executed.

From the above example, 25 * 200 = 5000 Queues will be created totally under the ChronicleTesting directory.

Flow:-

1. 25 Threads will be created.
2. Each thread will create a 200 queues
   - First, they will write into a queue with allocated bytes. (Here, as 30bytes)
   - Read from the queue.
   - clear the queue.
3. Then go to sleep. (Here, as 1000ms)
4. Steps 2 & 3 will be repeated as N number of iterations. (Here, as 1000)
5. The output message will be as Write and Read done for Thread: 1629 Iteration number : 0
6. After this is completed, each thread will go on a never-ending loop.
7. But, we are facing exclusive log issue.

Note:- We are looking for a solution. We came across this closed ticket (#641). As per this comment (#641 (comment)). We are attaching the Standalone Utility Jar to reproduce the issue consistently.

Requesting to take a look at this scenario.

Thanks in advance.
Standalone Utility.tar.gz

[JerryShea]

@NaveenNatarajan97 can I suggest you try with the latest version to see if this still happens. If you can provide a (failing) unit test as part of a PR against the latest version then you have a much greater chance of this getting addressed.

If you need someone to spend the time to support you I suggest you take a look at the support page and contact Chronicle Software

[NaveenNatarajan97]

@JerryShea Thanks for the response.

We used the latest version 5.24ea26 and were able to reproduce the issue as well.

When trying to create a PR against the latest version. We debugged and noticed. There is a timeout in the SingleTableStore.java.

try (final FileChannel channel = FileChannel.open(file.toPath(), readOrWrite)) {
            for (int count = 1; System.currentTimeMillis() < timeoutAt; count++) {

The FileChannel.open took more than 10000ms which leads doWithLock method to throw IllegalStateException("Unable to claim exclusive " + type + " lock on file " + file)

We noticed there is an option to change the timeout Parameter by using "chronicle.table.store.timeoutMS".

We increased the timeout and we see less number of exceptions now.

Increasing the chronicle.table.store.timeoutMS helps us.

• What will be the maximum value can we give here?
• Will there be any other issue if we increase this parameter (chronicle.table.store.timeoutMS)?
• Is there a way to disable this timeout?

[NaveenNatarajan97]

Chronicle_Queue_Standalone_Utility.txt
Attaching the source code of our standalone utility which we used to reproduce the issue.

Thanks in advance.

[marlowa]

26.0 has just been released, maybe worth a try to see if this issue is still there...?

[molo17inc]

Same issue here: two Windows Server 2025 hosts are giving us the same error. The issue cannot be reproduced elsewhere, Linux works fine and Windows Server 2019 & 2022 had no issues so far