Tasks in airflow not running in order - airflow

I'm using airflow to automatize some machine learning models. Everything it's successfull but i have issues according to the order of the tasks.
I have a 7 tasks running in paralel and the last two tasks must start when those 7 tasks finish.
At the time 6 tasks finishes, the last two start without waiting for the 7th taks to finish.
Here's the image of whats happening.

It appears that trigger_rule of your creation_order_cell_task is incorrect (fot the desired behaviour)
To get the behaviour you want, it should be either ALL_SUCCESS (default) or ALL_DONE

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Airflow dag dependencies

I have a airflow dag-1 that runs approximately for week and dag-2 that runs every day for few hours. When the dag-1 is running i cannot have the dag-2 running due to API limit rate (also dag-2 is supposed to run once dag-1 is finished).
Suppose the dag-1 is running already, then dag-2 that is supposed to run everyday fails, is there a way i can schedule the dag dependencies in a right way?
Is it possible to stop dag-1 temporarily(while running) when dag-2 is supposed to start and then run dag-1 again without manual interruption?
One of the best way is to use the defined pool ..
Lets say if you have a pool named: "specefic_pool" and allocate only one slot for it.
Specify the pool name in your dag bash command (instead of default pool, please use newly created pool) By that way you may over come of running both the dags parallel .
This helps whenever Dag1 is running Dag2 will never be triggered until pool is free or if the dag2 picked the pool until dag2 is completed dag1 is not going to get triggered.

How to increase tasks queued per second?

I am trying to diagnose an under-performing airflow pipeline and am wondering what kind of performance I should expect out of the airflow scheduler in terms similar to "tasks scheduled per second".
I have few queued jobs and many of my tasks finish in seconds so I suspect the scheduler is the limiting component and it is my fault for having many quick tasks. Still, I would rather not rewrite my DAGs if it can be avoided.
What can I do to increase the rate at which the scheduler queues tasks?
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Here is what my current airflow.cfg looks like.
I only have two dags running. One is scheduled every 5 min and the other is rarely triggered by the first. I am currently trying to backfill several years at this frequency, but may need to change my approach:
As for worker nodes: I currently have 4 fairly powerful servers running at less than 10% resource usage in disk, network, cpu, RAM, swap. Toggling 3 of the workers off has no impact on my task throughput and the server left on barely even registers the change in workload.
There are a number of config values in your airflow.cfg that could be related to this.
Under [core]:
parallelism: Total number of task instances that can run at once.
dag_concurrency: Limit of task instances that can run per DAG run, may need to bump if you have many parallel tasks. Can override when defining a DAG.
non_pooled_task_slot_count: Limit of tasks without a pool configured that can run at once.
max_active_runs_per_dag: The maximum number of active DAG runs per DAG. If you're triggering runs manually or there's a backup of DAG runs scheduled with a short interval. Can override when defining a DAG.
Under [scheduler]:
schedule_heartbeat_sec: Defines how often the scheduler runs, try it out with lower values.
min_file_process_interval: Process each file at most once every N seconds. Set to 0 to never limit how often you process a file.
Under [worker]:
celeryd_concurrency: Number of workers celery will run with, so essentially number of task instances a worker can take at once. Matching the number of CPUs is a popular starting point, but can definitely go higher.
Last one is only if you're using the CeleryExecutor, which I'd definitely recommend if you're looking to increase your task throughput.

Airflow parallelism

the Local Executor spawns new processes while scheduling tasks. Is there a limit to the number of processes it creates. I needed to change it. I need to know what is the difference between scheduler's "max_threads" and
"parallelism" in airflow.cfg ?
parallelism: not a very descriptive name. The description says it sets the maximum task instances for the airflow installation, which is a bit ambiguous — if I have two hosts running airflow workers, I'd have airflow installed on two hosts, so that should be two installations, but based on context 'per installation' here means 'per Airflow state database'. I'd name this max_active_tasks.
dag_concurrency: Despite the name based on the comment this is actually the task concurrency, and it's per worker. I'd name this max_active_tasks_for_worker (per_worker would suggest that it's a global setting for workers, but I think you can have workers with different values set for this).
max_active_runs_per_dag: This one's kinda alright, but since it seems to be just a default value for the matching DAG kwarg, it might be nice to reflect that in the name, something like default_max_active_runs_for_dags
So let's move on to the DAG kwargs:
concurrency: Again, having a general name like this, coupled with the fact that concurrency is used for something different elsewhere makes this pretty confusing. I'd call this max_active_tasks.
max_active_runs: This one sounds alright to me.
source: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRFLOW-57
max_threads gives the user some control over cpu usage. It specifies scheduler parallelism.
It's 2019 and more updated docs have come out. In short:
AIRFLOW__CORE__PARALLELISM is the max number of task instances that can run concurrently across ALL of Airflow (all tasks across all dags)
AIRFLOW__CORE__DAG_CONCURRENCY is the max number of task instances allowed to run concurrently FOR A SINGLE SPECIFIC DAG
These docs describe it in more detail:
According to https://www.astronomer.io/guides/airflow-scaling-workers/:
parallelism is the max number of task instances that can run
concurrently on airflow. This means that across all running DAGs, no
more than 32 tasks will run at one time.
And
dag_concurrency is the number of task instances allowed to run
concurrently within a specific dag. In other words, you could have 2
DAGs running 16 tasks each in parallel, but a single DAG with 50 tasks
would also only run 16 tasks - not 32
And, according to https://airflow.apache.org/faq.html#how-to-reduce-airflow-dag-scheduling-latency-in-production:
max_threads: Scheduler will spawn multiple threads in parallel to
schedule dags. This is controlled by max_threads with default value of
2. User should increase this value to a larger value(e.g numbers of cpus where scheduler runs - 1) in production.
But it seems like this last piece shouldn't take up too much time, because it's just the "scheduling" portion. Not the actual running portion. Therefore we didn't see the need to tweak max_threads much, but AIRFLOW__CORE__PARALLELISM and AIRFLOW__CORE__DAG_CONCURRENCY did affect us.
The scheduler's max_threads is the number of processes to parallelize the scheduler over. The max_threads cannot exceed the cpu count. The LocalExecutor's parallelism is the number of concurrent tasks the LocalExecutor should run. Both the scheduler and the LocalExecutor use python's multiprocessing library for parallelism.

How to terminate whole test in jMeter after a fixed amount of time?

I wrote a windows batch script that runs a group of parametrized jMeter tests. However the test sometimes hang (should take aprox. 2 minutes, takes 5 hour for no reason - can Gaussian Random Timer cause that?). I really need the whole batch job to finish within some time bounds. So:
Is it possible to set a maximum execution time for a jMeter test after which the whole test along with all threads is terminated?
Note: Scheduler doesn't really do the trick (I set startup delay = 0 and duration = 20 and the test still doen't finish in under a minute).
Do a thread dump to see what is happening as this may indicate an issue on server side.
Do you have this log in jmeter.log or in console:
The following non-daemon threads are still running (DestroyJavaVM is OK)
To overcome this:
configure timeouts on HTTP Sampler
Use scheduler and configure it to run for a duration

How do I kill running map tasks on Amazon EMR?

I have a job running using Hadoop 0.20 on 32 spot instances. It has been running for 9 hours with no errors. It has processed 3800 tasks during that time, but I have noticed that just two tasks appear to be stuck and have been running alone for a couple of hours (apparently responding because they don't time out). The tasks don't typically take more than 15 minutes. I don't want to lose all the work that's already been done, because it costs me a lot of money. I would really just like to kill those two tasks and have Hadoop either reassign them or just count them as failed. Until they stop, I cannot get the reduce results from the other 3798 maps!
But I can't figure out how to do that. I have considered trying to figure out which instances are running the tasks and then terminate those instances, but
I don't know how to figure out which instances are the culprits
I am afraid it will have unintended effects.
How do I just kill individual map tasks?
Generally, on a Hadoop cluster you can kill a particular task by issuing:
hadoop job -kill-task [attempt_id]
This will kill the given map task and re-submits it on an different
node with a new id.
To get the attemp_id navigate on the Jobtracker's web UI to the map task
in question, click on it and note it's id (e.g: attempt_201210111830_0012_m_000000_0)
ssh to the master node as mentioned by Lorand, and execute:
bin/hadoop job -list
bin/hadoop job –kill <JobID>

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