[jira] [Updated] (CASSANDRA-4316) Compaction Throttle too bursty with large rows

["Jonathan Ellis (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Jonathan Ellis updated CASSANDRA-4316:
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    Priority: Major  (was: Minor)
    
> Compaction Throttle too bursty with large rows
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>                 Key: CASSANDRA-4316
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4316
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Core
>    Affects Versions: 0.8.0
>            Reporter: Wayne Lewis
>            Assignee: Yuki Morishita
>             Fix For: 1.2.1
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> In org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.CompactionIterable the check for compaction throttling occurs once every 1000 rows. In our workload this is much too large as we have many large rows (16 - 100 MB).
> With a 100 MB row, about 100 GB is read (and possibly written) before the compaction throttle sleeps. This causes bursts of essentially unthrottled compaction IO followed by a long sleep which yields inconsistence performance and high error rates during the bursts.
> We applied a workaround to check throttle every row which solved our performance and error issues:
> line 116 in org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.CompactionIterable:
>                 if ((row++ % 1000) == 0)
> replaced with
>                 if ((row++ % 1) == 0)
> I think the better solution is to calculate how often throttle should be checked based on the throttle rate to apply sleeps more consistently. E.g. if 16MB/sec is the limit then check for sleep after every 16MB is read so sleeps are spaced out about every second.

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