[jira] [Commented] (CASSANDRA-6534) Slow inserts with collections into a single partition (Pathological GC behavior)

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

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Benedict commented on CASSANDRA-6534:
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Are your test inserts being run in parallel, or serially? Are you overwriting the map values with each insert, or adding new ones (if the latter, the comparison between collections/non-collections is not fair)

There are a number of reasons why many rapid updates to a single partition key may perform badly (this is not really the behaviour Cassandra is optimised for), but I would try this out on the latest trunk to see if CASSANDRA-5417 helps you at all.

> Slow inserts with collections into a single partition (Pathological GC behavior)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-6534
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6534
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Core
>         Environment: dsc12-1.2.12-1.noarch.rpm
> cassandra12-1.2.12-1.noarch.rpm
> centos 6.4
>            Reporter: Michael Penick
>             Fix For: 1.2.12
>
>         Attachments: GC_behavior.png
>
>
> We noticed extremely slow insertion rates to a single partition key, using composite column with a collection value. We were not able to replicate the issue using the same schema, but with a non-colleciton value and using much larger values.  During the collection insertion tests we have tons of these messages in the system.log:
> "GCInspector.java (line 119) GC for ConcurrentMarkSweep: 1287 ms for 2 collections, 1233256368 used; max is 8375238656"
> We are inserting a tiny amounts of data 32-64 bytes and seeing the issue after only a couple 10k inserts. The amount of memory being used by C*/JVM is no where near proportional to the amount data being inserted. Why is C* consuming so much memory?
> Attached is a picture of the GC under one of the pathological tests. Keep in mind we are only inserting 128KB - 256KB of data and we are almost hitting the limit of the heap.
> GC flags:
> -XX:+UseThreadPriorities
> -XX:ThreadPriorityPolicy=42
> -Xms8192M
> -Xmx8192M
> -Xmn2048M
> -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError
> -Xss180k
> -XX:+UseParNewGC
> -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
> -XX:+CMSParallelRemarkEnabled
> -XX:SurvivorRatio=8
> -XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=1
> -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75
> -XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly
> -XX:+UseTLAB
> Example schemas:
> Note: The type of collection or primitive type in the collection doesn't seem to matter.
> {code}
> CREATE TABLE test.test (
> row_key text, 
> column_key uuid,
>  column_value list<int>, 
> PRIMARY KEY(row_key, column_key));
> CREATE TABLE test.test (
> row_key text, 
> column_key uuid, 
> column_value map<text, text>, 
> PRIMARY KEY(row_key, column_key));
> {code}
> Example inserts:
> Note: This issue is able to be replicated with extremely small inserts (a well as larger ~1KB)
> {code}
> INSERT INTO test.test 
> (row_key, column_key, column_value)
> VALUES 
> ('0000000001', e0138677-7246-11e3-ac78-016ae7083d37, [0, 1, 2, 3]);
> INSERT INTO test.test 
> (row_key, column_key, column_value) 
> VALUES
> ('0000000022', 1ac5770a-7247-11e3-80e4-016ae7083d37, { 'a': '0123456701234567012345670',  'b': '0123456701234567012345670' });
> {code}
> As a comparison, I was able to run the same tests with the following schema with no issue:
> Note: This test was able to run at a much faster insertion speed, for much longer and much bigger column sizes (1KB) without any GC issues.
> {code}
> CREATE TABLE test.test (
> row_key text, 
> column_key uuid, 
> column_value text, 
> PRIMARY KEY(row_key, column_key) )
> {code}



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