Right, I just meant that calling it at all results in holding a read lock, which unfortunately is blocking these read threads.
On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Jeff Jirsa <jji...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Dan Kinder <dkin...@turnitin.com> wrote: > >> (As a side note, it seems silly to call shouldDefragment at all on a read >> if the compaction strategy is not STSC) >> >> >> > It defaults to false: > > https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/cassandra-3.0/ > src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/compaction/AbstractCompactionStrategy. > java#L302 > > And nothing else other than STCS overrides it to true. > > > -- Dan Kinder Principal Software Engineer Turnitin – www.turnitin.com dkin...@turnitin.com