SA-35078

Summary

While running outbound email campaigns, the JVM running the SendEmailsinBulk agent hangs, either the childRequestors hang or the entire JVM becomes unresponsive.

Error Messages

None. Thread dumps show one or more threads in this state:

"PegaRULES-Batch-109" daemon prio=10 tid=0x00007ffa1c05e000 nid=0x41b8 runnable [0x00007ff9b88c5000]
java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE
at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method)
at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:152)
at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:122)
at com.sun.mail.util.TraceInputStream.read(TraceInputStream.java:124)
at java.io.BufferedInputStream.fill(BufferedInputStream.java:235)
at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(BufferedInputStream.java:254)
- locked <0x0000000789a80940> (a java.io.BufferedInputStream)
at com.sun.mail.util.LineInputStream.readLine(LineInputStream.java:89)
at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.readServerResponse(SMTPTransport.java:2284)
at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.openServer(SMTPTransport.java:2031)
at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.protocolConnect(SMTPTransport.java:697)
- locked <0x0000000789a80aa8> (a com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport)
at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:364)
- locked <0x0000000789a80aa8> (a com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport)
at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:245)
at com.pegarules.generated.SendMessage_072101_WSOAdamfvonXcONcNLQJ_A.SendMessage07_21_01(SendMessage_072101_WSOAdamfvonXcONcNLQJ_A.java:694)
at com.pegarules.generated.SendMessage_072101_WSOAdamfvonXcONcNLQJ_A.invoke(SendMessage_072101_WSOAdamfvonXcONcNLQJ_A.java:84)
at com.pega.pegarules.generation.internal.library.LibraryRuntime.resolveAndinvokeFunctionViaReflection(LibraryRuntime.java:133)
at com.pega.pegarules.generation.internal.library.LibraryRuntime.invokeLibraryRuntime(LibraryRuntime.java:110)
at com.pega.pegarules.session.internal.mgmt.Executable.invokeLibraryRuntime(Executable.java:9017)
at com.pega.pegarules.priv.generator.LibrarySupport.resolveAndInvokeFunctionViaReflection(LibrarySupport.java:181)
at com.pegarules.generated.pegamkt_mailutilities_mailutilities.SendMessage(pegamkt_mailutilities_mailutilities.java:159)

Steps to Reproduce

Execute Outbound email campaign, monitor threads in JVM.

Root Cause

A defect in Pegasystems’ code or rules will allow SendMessage to wait forever if mail server is non-responsive. Updated code will implement a wait timeout, so that non-responsive mail servers cannot hang threads indefinately.

Resolution

Apply HFix-33001 for Pega Marketing 7.21