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[jira] [Created] (ACCUMULO-1083) add concurrency to HDFS write-ahead log

Adam Fuchs created ACCUMULO-1083:
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             Summary: add concurrency to HDFS write-ahead log
                 Key: ACCUMULO-1083
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-1083
             Project: Accumulo
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: logger, tserver
            Reporter: Adam Fuchs


When running tablet servers on beefy nodes (lots of disks), the write-ahead log can be a serious bottleneck. Today we ran a test of 1.5-SNAPSHOT on an 8-node (plus a master node) cluster in which the nodes had 32 cores and 15 drives each. Running with write-ahead log off resulted in a >4x performance improvement sustained over a long period.

I believe the culprit is that the WAL is only using one file at a time per tablet server, which means HDFS is only appending to one drive (plus replicas). If we increase the number of concurrent WAL files supported on a tablet server we could probably drastically improve the performance on systems with many disks. As it stands, I believe Accumulo is significantly more optimized for a larger number of smaller nodes (3-4 drives).

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