[jira] [Created] (CASSANDRA-12114) Cassandra startup takes an hour because of java.io.File.listFiles

["Tom van der Woerdt (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Tom van der Woerdt created CASSANDRA-12114:
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             Summary: Cassandra startup takes an hour because of java.io.File.listFiles
                 Key: CASSANDRA-12114
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12114
             Project: Cassandra
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Core
            Reporter: Tom van der Woerdt


A Cassandra cluster of ours has nodes with up to 4TB of data, in a single table using leveled compaction having 200k files. While upgrading from 2.2.6 to 3.0.7 we noticed that it took a while to restart a node. And with "a while" I mean we measured it at more than 60 minutes.

jstack shows something interesting :
{code}
"main" #1 prio=5 os_prio=0 tid=0x00007f30db0ea400 nid=0xdb22 runnable [0x00007f30de122000]
   java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE
    at java.io.UnixFileSystem.list(Native Method)
    at java.io.File.list(File.java:1122)
    at java.io.File.listFiles(File.java:1248)
    at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.Descriptor.getTemporaryFiles(Descriptor.java:172)
    at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.scrubDataDirectories(ColumnFamilyStore.java:599)
    at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:245)
    at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:557)
    at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:685)
{code}

Going by the source of File.listFiles, it puts every file in a directory into an array and *then* applies the filter.

This is actually a known Java issue from 1999: http://bugs.java.com/view_bug.do;jsessionid=db7fcf25bcce13541c4289edeb4?bug_id=4285834 -- their "solution" was to introduce new APIs in JRE7. I guess that makes listFiles deprecated for larger directories (like when using LeveledCompactionStrategy).


tl;dr: because Cassandra uses java.io.File.listFiles, service startup can take an hour for larger data sets.



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