[jira] Commented: (CASSANDRA-2191) Multithread across compaction buckets

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

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Stu Hood commented on CASSANDRA-2191:
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I just noticed this makes monitoring inaccurate: CompactionExecutor is going to need a bit of an overhaul to report multiple compactions. Alternatively, as stated in the FIXME in CompactionExecutor, it could become a real stage: perhaps we could find a way to generically report on running tasks in stages?

> Multithread across compaction buckets
> -------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-2191
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2191
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Core
>            Reporter: Stu Hood
>            Priority: Critical
>              Labels: compaction
>             Fix For: 0.8
>
>         Attachments: 0001-Add-a-compacting-set-to-sstabletracker.txt, 0002-Use-the-compacting-set-of-sstables-to-schedule-multith.txt
>
>
> This ticket overlaps with CASSANDRA-1876 to a degree, but the approaches and reasoning are different enough to open a separate issue.
> The problem with compactions currently is that they compact the set of sstables that existed the moment the compaction started. This means that for longer running compactions (even when running as fast as possible on the hardware), a very large number of new sstables might be created in the meantime. We have observed this proliferation of sstables killing performance during major/high-bucketed compactions.
> One approach would be to pause compactions in upper buckets (containing larger files) when compactions in lower buckets become possible. While this would likely solve the problem with read performance, it does not actually help us perform compaction any faster, which is a reasonable requirement for other situations.
> Instead, we need to be able to perform any compactions that are currently required in parallel, independent of what bucket they might be in.

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