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[jira] [Comment Edited] (CASSANDRA-15452) Improve disk access patterns during compaction and range reads

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Michael Semb Wever edited comment on CASSANDRA-15452 at 2/15/25 6:34 PM:
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four failures are unrelated.


was (Author: michaelsembwever):
CI results for 5.0
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> Improve disk access patterns during compaction and range reads
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-15452
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-15452
>             Project: Apache Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Legacy/Local Write-Read Paths, Local/Compaction
>            Reporter: Jon Haddad
>            Assignee: Jordan West
>            Priority: Normal
>             Fix For: 4.1.x, 5.0.x, 5.x
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>         Attachments: ci_summary_jrwest_jwest-15452-5.0_153.html, everyfs.txt, image-2024-11-22-16-17-23-194.png, image-2025-01-07-16-04-23-909.png, image-2025-01-07-16-56-12-853.png, image-2025-01-07-16-57-29-134.png, iostat-5.0-head.output, iostat-5.0-patched.output, iostat-ebs-15452.png, iostat-ebs-head.png, iostat-instance-15452.png, iostat-instance-head.png, results.txt, results_details_jrwest_jwest-15452-5.0_153.tar.xz, screenshot-1.png, screenshot-2.png, screenshot-3.png, screenshot-4.png, screenshot-5.png, screenshot-6.png, sequential.fio, throughput-1.png, throughput.png
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>          Time Spent: 8.5h
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> On read heavy workloads Cassandra performs much better when using a low read ahead setting.   In my tests I've seen an 5x improvement in throughput and more than a 50% reduction in latency.  However, I've also observed that it can have a negative impact on compaction and streaming throughput. It especially negatively impacts cloud environments where small reads incur high costs in IOPS due to tiny requests.
>  # We should investigate using POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED on files we're compacting to see if we can improve performance and reduce page faults. 
>  # This should be combined with an internal read ahead style buffer that Cassandra manages, similar to a BufferedInputStream but with our own machinery.  This buffer should read fairly large blocks of data off disk at at time.  EBS, for example, allows 1 IOP to be up to 256KB.  A considerable amount of time is spent in blocking I/O during compaction and streaming. Reducing the frequency we read from disk should speed up all sequential I/O operations.
>  # We can reduce system calls by buffering writes as well, but I think it will have less of an impact than the reads



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