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Joey Lynch commented on CASSANDRA-14898:
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Cherry picked the trunk branch back to 4.0 and applied a fixup or two to get
[ae5954b1|https://github.com/jolynch/cassandra/commit/ae5954b1c513337484c43b575f09a0229464a33e].
I've kicked off circleci precommit runs for 3.0, 3.11, 4.0 and trunk. If
those come back green will commit.
> Key cache loading is very slow when there are many SSTables
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: CASSANDRA-14898
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-14898
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Legacy/Local Write-Read Paths
> Environment: AWS i3.2xlarge, 4 physical cores (8 threads), 60GB of
> RAM, loading about 8MB of KeyCache with 10k keys in it.
> Reporter: Joey Lynch
> Assignee: Venkata Harikrishna Nukala
> Priority: Low
> Labels: Performance, low-hanging-fruit
> Attachments: key_cache_load_slow.svg
>
> Time Spent: 1h
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
>
> While dealing with a production issue today where some 3.0.17 nodes had close
> to ~8k sstables on disk due to excessive write pressure, we had a few nodes
> crash due to OOM and then they took close to 17 minutes to load the key cache
> and recover. This excessive key cache load significantly increased the
> duration of the outage (to mitigate we just removed the saved key cache
> files). For example here is one example taking 17 minutes to load 10k keys,
> or about 10 keys per second (which is ... very slow):
> {noformat}
> INFO [pool-3-thread-1] 2018-11-15 21:50:21,885 AutoSavingCache.java:190 -
> reading saved cache /mnt/data/cassandra/saved_caches/KeyCache-d.db
> INFO [pool-3-thread-1] 2018-11-15 22:07:16,490 AutoSavingCache.java:166 -
> Completed loading (1014606 ms; 10103 keys) KeyCache cache
> {noformat}
> I've witnessed similar behavior in the past with large LCS clusters, and
> indeed it appears that any time the number of sstables is large, KeyCache
> loading takes a _really_ long time. Today I got a flame graph and I believe
> that I found the issue and I think it's reasonably easy to fix. From what I
> can tell the {{KeyCacheSerializer::deserialize}} [method
> |https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/06209037ea56b5a2a49615a99f1542d6ea1b2947/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/service/CacheService.java#L445]
> which is called for every key is linear in the number of sstables due to the
> [call|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/06209037ea56b5a2a49615a99f1542d6ea1b2947/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/service/CacheService.java#L459]
> to {{ColumnFamilyStore::getSSTables}} which ends up calling {{View::select}}
> [here|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/06209037ea56b5a2a49615a99f1542d6ea1b2947/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/lifecycle/View.java#L139].
> The {{View::select}} call is linear in the number of sstables and causes a
> _lot_ of {{HashSet}}
> [resizing|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/06209037ea56b5a2a49615a99f1542d6ea1b2947/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/lifecycle/View.java#L139]
> when the number of sstables is much greater than 16 (the default size of the
> backing {{HashMap}}).
> As we see in the attached flamegraph we spend 50% of our CPU time in these
> {{getSSTable}} calls, of which 36% is spent adding sstables to the HashSet in
> {{View::select}} and 17% is spent just iterating the sstables in the first
> place. A full 16% of CPU time is spent _just resizing the HashMap_. Then
> another 4% is spend calling {{CacheService::findDesc}} which does [a linear
> search|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/06209037ea56b5a2a49615a99f1542d6ea1b2947/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/service/CacheService.java#L475]
> for the sstable generation.
> I believe that this affects at least Cassandra 3.0.17 and trunk, and could be
> pretty easily fixed by either caching the getSSTables call or at the very
> least pre-sizing the {{HashSet}} in {{View::select}} to be the size of the
> sstables map.
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