Tom van der Woerdt created CASSANDRA-12763: ----------------------------------------------
Summary: Compaction performance issues when a table has a lot of sstables Key: CASSANDRA-12763 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12763 Project: Cassandra Issue Type: Bug Components: Compaction Reporter: Tom van der Woerdt An issue with a script flooded my cluster with sstables. There is now a table with 100k sstables, all on the order of KBytes, and it's taking a long time (ETA 20 days) to compact, even though the table is only ~30GB. Stack trace : {noformat} "CompactionExecutor:269" #7536 daemon prio=1 os_prio=4 tid=0x00007f4acd40fc00 nid=0x14f8 runnable [0x00007f4798436000] 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.db.lifecycle.LogRecord.getExistingFiles(LogRecord.java:268) at org.apache.cassandra.db.lifecycle.LogRecord.make(LogRecord.java:150) at org.apache.cassandra.db.lifecycle.LogFile.makeRecord(LogFile.java:293) at org.apache.cassandra.db.lifecycle.LogFile.add(LogFile.java:283) at org.apache.cassandra.db.lifecycle.LogTransaction.obsoleted(LogTransaction.java:158) at org.apache.cassandra.db.lifecycle.Helpers.prepareForObsoletion(Helpers.java:134) at org.apache.cassandra.db.lifecycle.LifecycleTransaction.doPrepare(LifecycleTransaction.java:193) at org.apache.cassandra.utils.concurrent.Transactional$AbstractTransactional.prepareToCommit(Transactional.java:173) at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableRewriter.doPrepare(SSTableRewriter.java:376) at org.apache.cassandra.utils.concurrent.Transactional$AbstractTransactional.prepareToCommit(Transactional.java:173) at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.writers.CompactionAwareWriter.doPrepare(CompactionAwareWriter.java:84) at org.apache.cassandra.utils.concurrent.Transactional$AbstractTransactional.prepareToCommit(Transactional.java:173) at org.apache.cassandra.utils.concurrent.Transactional$AbstractTransactional.finish(Transactional.java:184) at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.writers.CompactionAwareWriter.finish(CompactionAwareWriter.java:94) at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.CompactionTask.runMayThrow(CompactionTask.java:194) at org.apache.cassandra.utils.WrappedRunnable.run(WrappedRunnable.java:28) at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.CompactionTask.executeInternal(CompactionTask.java:78) at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.AbstractCompactionTask.execute(AbstractCompactionTask.java:61) at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.CompactionManager$BackgroundCompactionCandidate.run(CompactionManager.java:263) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) {noformat} listFiles is being called over and over, apparently scaling with the number of files in the compaction. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)