[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-11170?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=15148798#comment-15148798 ]
Ryan Svihla commented on CASSANDRA-11170: ----------------------------------------- Fat partitions and bad data models exist, no need to make them worse by pinning all write load to one unfortunate unlucky node until it dies. Going to a single node just lowers the bar for the data model falling apart, I get RF writes will happen anyway, but I'm assuming coordinator work is non trivial (especially on higher levels of CL) and I know from observation that hint handling and replay is non trivial especially at certain points (I'm certain improved with file based hints but I'm also certain not free). Final point, if you think of the stereotypical time series bucket data model the "stick to the primary token owner" approach will generate more hints than SOME strategy of balancing the load. > Uneven load can be created by cross DC mutation propagations, as remote > coordinator is not randomly picked > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-11170 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-11170 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Coordination > Reporter: Wei Deng > > I was looking at the o.a.c.service.StorageProxy code and realized that it > seems to be always picking the first IP in the remote DC target list as the > destination, whenever it needs to send the mutation to a remote DC. See these > lines in the code: > https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/1944bf507d66b5c103c136319caeb4a9e3767a69/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/service/StorageProxy.java#L1280-L1301 > This could cause one node in the remote DC receiving more mutation messages > than the other nodes, and hence uneven workload distribution. > A trivial test (with TRACE logging level enabled) on a 3+3 node cluster > proved the problem, see the system.log entries below: > {code} > INFO [RMI TCP Connection(18)-54.173.227.52] 2016-02-13 09:54:55,948 > StorageService.java:3353 - set log level to TRACE for classes under > 'org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageProxy' (if the level doesn't look like > 'TRACE' then the logger couldn't parse 'TRACE') > TRACE [SharedPool-Worker-1] 2016-02-13 09:55:15,148 StorageProxy.java:1284 - > Adding FWD message to 8996@/52.53.215.74 > TRACE [SharedPool-Worker-1] 2016-02-13 09:55:15,149 StorageProxy.java:1284 - > Adding FWD message to 8997@/54.183.23.201 > TRACE [SharedPool-Worker-1] 2016-02-13 09:55:15,149 StorageProxy.java:1289 - > Sending message to 8998@/54.183.209.219 > TRACE [SharedPool-Worker-1] 2016-02-13 09:55:22,939 StorageProxy.java:1284 - > Adding FWD message to 9032@/52.53.215.74 > TRACE [SharedPool-Worker-1] 2016-02-13 09:55:22,940 StorageProxy.java:1284 - > Adding FWD message to 9033@/54.183.23.201 > TRACE [SharedPool-Worker-1] 2016-02-13 09:55:22,941 StorageProxy.java:1289 - > Sending message to 9034@/54.183.209.219 > TRACE [SharedPool-Worker-1] 2016-02-13 09:55:28,975 StorageProxy.java:1284 - > Adding FWD message to 9064@/52.53.215.74 > TRACE [SharedPool-Worker-1] 2016-02-13 09:55:28,976 StorageProxy.java:1284 - > Adding FWD message to 9065@/54.183.23.201 > TRACE [SharedPool-Worker-1] 2016-02-13 09:55:28,977 StorageProxy.java:1289 - > Sending message to 9066@/54.183.209.219 > TRACE [SharedPool-Worker-1] 2016-02-13 09:55:33,464 StorageProxy.java:1284 - > Adding FWD message to 9094@/52.53.215.74 > TRACE [SharedPool-Worker-1] 2016-02-13 09:55:33,465 StorageProxy.java:1284 - > Adding FWD message to 9095@/54.183.23.201 > TRACE [SharedPool-Worker-1] 2016-02-13 09:55:33,478 StorageProxy.java:1289 - > Sending message to 9096@/54.183.209.219 > TRACE [SharedPool-Worker-1] 2016-02-13 09:55:39,243 StorageProxy.java:1284 - > Adding FWD message to 9121@/52.53.215.74 > TRACE [SharedPool-Worker-1] 2016-02-13 09:55:39,244 StorageProxy.java:1284 - > Adding FWD message to 9122@/54.183.23.201 > TRACE [SharedPool-Worker-1] 2016-02-13 09:55:39,244 StorageProxy.java:1289 - > Sending message to 9123@/54.183.209.219 > TRACE [SharedPool-Worker-1] 2016-02-13 09:55:44,248 StorageProxy.java:1284 - > Adding FWD message to 9145@/52.53.215.74 > TRACE [SharedPool-Worker-1] 2016-02-13 09:55:44,249 StorageProxy.java:1284 - > Adding FWD message to 9146@/54.183.23.201 > TRACE [SharedPool-Worker-1] 2016-02-13 09:55:44,249 StorageProxy.java:1289 - > Sending message to 9147@/54.183.209.219 > TRACE [SharedPool-Worker-1] 2016-02-13 09:55:49,731 StorageProxy.java:1284 - > Adding FWD message to 9170@/52.53.215.74 > TRACE [SharedPool-Worker-1] 2016-02-13 09:55:49,734 StorageProxy.java:1284 - > Adding FWD message to 9171@/54.183.23.201 > TRACE [SharedPool-Worker-1] 2016-02-13 09:55:49,735 StorageProxy.java:1289 - > Sending message to 9172@/54.183.209.219 > INFO [RMI TCP Connection(22)-54.173.227.52] 2016-02-13 09:56:19,545 > StorageService.java:3353 - set log level to INFO for classes under > 'org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageProxy' (if the level doesn't look like > 'INFO' then the logger couldn't parse 'INFO') > {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)