[jira] [Assigned] (CASSANDRA-7139) Default concurrent_compactors is probably too high

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

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amorton reassigned CASSANDRA-7139:
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    Assignee: amorton  (was: Jonathan Ellis)

> Default concurrent_compactors is probably too high
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>                 Key: CASSANDRA-7139
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7139
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Core
>            Reporter: Benedict
>            Assignee: amorton
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 2.1 rc1
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>         Attachments: 7139.txt
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> The default number of concurrent compactors is probably too high for modern hardware with spinning disks for storage: A modern blade can easily have 24+ Cores, which would result in a default of 24 concurrent compactions. This not only increases random IO, it also keeps around a lot of obsoleted files for an unnecessarily long time, as each compaction keeps references to any possibly overlapping files that it isn't itself compacting - but these can have been obsoleted part way through by compactions that finished earlier. If you factor in the default compaction throughput rate of 16Mb/s, anything but a single default concurrent_compactor makes very little sense, as a single thread should always be able to handle 16Mb/s, will cause less interference with other processes, and permits obsoleted files to be immediately removed.
> See [http://imgur.com/HDqhxFp] for a graph demonstrating the result of making this change on a box with 24-cores and 8Tb of storage (first spike is default settings)



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