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Tom van der Woerdt commented on CASSANDRA-12114:
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Forgot to mention :
{code}
$ java -version
java version "1.8.0_77"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_77-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.77-b03, mixed mode)
{code}
> 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?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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