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Michael Han commented on ZOOKEEPER-3179:
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Good feature.
We can also consider provide the option to offload compression / decompression
to dedicated hardware - e.g. FPGA.
> Add snapshot compression to reduce the disk IO
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> Key: ZOOKEEPER-3179
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-3179
> Project: ZooKeeper
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Fangmin Lv
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 3.6.0
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> When the snapshot becomes larger, the periodically snapshot after certain
> number of txns will be more expensive. Which will in turn affect the maximum
> throughput we can support within SLA, because of the disk contention between
> snapshot and txn when they're on the same drive.
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> With compression like zstd/snappy/gzip, the actual snapshot size could be
> much smaller, the compress ratio depends on the actual data. It might make
> the recovery time (loading from disk) faster in some cases, but will take
> longer sometimes because of the extra time used to compress/decompress.
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> Based on the production traffic, the performance various with different
> compress method as well, that's why we provided different implementations, we
> can select different compress method for different use cases.
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