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Benedict edited comment on CASSANDRA-6271 at 1/1/14 11:12 PM: -------------------------------------------------------------- -Sure!- bq. that breaks the case of "root is the only node." I didn't say anything, honest. was (Author: benedict): Sure! > Replace SnapTree in AtomicSortedColumns > --------------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-6271 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6271 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Benedict > Assignee: Benedict > Labels: performance > Attachments: oprate.svg > > > On the write path a huge percentage of time is spent in GC (>50% in my tests, > if accounting for slow down due to parallel marking). SnapTrees are both GC > unfriendly due to their structure and also very expensive to keep around - > each column name in AtomicSortedColumns uses > 100 bytes on average > (excluding the actual ByteBuffer). > I suggest using a sorted array; changes are supplied at-once, as opposed to > one at a time, and if < 10% of the keys in the array change (and data equal > to < 10% of the size of the key array) we simply overlay a new array of > changes only over the top. Otherwise we rewrite the array. This method should > ensure much less GC overhead, and also save approximately 80% of the current > memory overhead. > TreeMap is similarly difficult object for the GC, and a related task might be > to remove it where not strictly necessary, even though we don't keep them > hanging around for long. TreeMapBackedSortedColumns, for instance, seems to > be used in a lot of places where we could simply sort the columns. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.5#6160)