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Vijay commented on CASSANDRA-5506: ---------------------------------- Instead of storing the long[] and byte[][] in memory, can we store the indexes/pointers of the decorated key in memory... which will be helpful to address the off-heap decorated key's and offset? For example: During the binary search, we can use offheap indexes.length to find the midpoint in memory then reference it back to offheap BB which will be deserialized as needed (Summary effectively becomes a contiguous off-heap location)? > Reduce memory consumption of IndexSummary > ----------------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-5506 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5506 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Core > Reporter: Nick Puz > Assignee: Jonathan Ellis > Fix For: 1.2.5 > > > I am evaluating cassandra for a use case with many tiny rows which would > result in a node with 1-3TB of storage having billions of rows. Before > loading that much data I am hitting GC issues and when looking at the heap > dump I noticed that 70+% of the memory was used by IndexSummaries. > The two major issues seem to be: > 1) that the positions are stored as an ArrayList<Long> which results in each > position taking 24 bytes (class + flags + 8 byte long). This might make sense > when the file is initially written but once it has been serialized it would > be a lot more memory efficient to just have an long[] (really a int[] would > be fine unless 2GB sstables are allowed). > 2) The DecoratedKey for a byte[16] key takes 195 bytes -- this is for the > overhead of the ByteBuffer in the key and overhead in the token. > To somewhat "work around" the problem I have increased index_sample but will > this many rows that didn't really help starts to have diminishing returns. > NOTE: This heap dump was from linux with a 64bit oracle vm. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira