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graham sanderson edited comment on CASSANDRA-7546 at 7/25/14 6:32 AM: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Actually looking at my numbers here on the production level h/w, I certainly don't think the numbers are too aggressive, but as I say it'd be nice to actually watch this in the real world was (Author: graham sanderson): Actually looking at my numbers here on the production level h/w, I certainly don't think the numbers are too aggressive (i.e. if anything they kick in too late), but as I say it'd be nice to actually watch this in the real world. > AtomicSortedColumns.addAllWithSizeDelta has a spin loop that allocates memory > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-7546 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7546 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Core > Reporter: graham sanderson > Assignee: graham sanderson > Attachments: 7546.20.txt, 7546.20_2.txt, 7546.20_3.txt, > 7546.20_4.txt, 7546.20_alt.txt, suggestion1.txt, suggestion1_21.txt > > > In order to preserve atomicity, this code attempts to read, clone/update, > then CAS the state of the partition. > Under heavy contention for updating a single partition this can cause some > fairly staggering memory growth (the more cores on your machine the worst it > gets). > Whilst many usage patterns don't do highly concurrent updates to the same > partition, hinting today, does, and in this case wild (order(s) of magnitude > more than expected) memory allocation rates can be seen (especially when the > updates being hinted are small updates to different partitions which can > happen very fast on their own) - see CASSANDRA-7545 > It would be best to eliminate/reduce/limit the spinning memory allocation > whilst not slowing down the very common un-contended case. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)