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Sylvain Lebresne commented on CASSANDRA-3269:
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{noformat}
switchlock.writelock.lock();
ctx = Commitlog.instance.getContext(); // returns 0
/// now the logRecordAdder is executed , and advances the position to 199;
{noformat}
That could (should) not happen. The commit log is mono-threaded by mean of its
executor. And every action on the commit log happens in a task on that
executor. In particular Commitlog.instance.getContext() push a task on the
commit log executor. This means that a logRecordAdder that has been pushed
before the switchlock is grabbed for the flush cannot return a position that is
after the position return by getContext() at the beginning of the flush (i.e,
it either return a greater position in the same segment or a position in a
newer segment). So thanks to the switchlock (that stops writes momentarily), we
know that that the ctx position for the flush is after every write that has
been done in the memtable we are flushing.
Now we call discardCompletedSegments later, so what can happen is that there
has been writes to the commit log between the time we had grabbed that flush
position and the time discardCompletedSegments is called. That is the goal of
CL.lastWrite. If when we discard segments, there has been no write on this
segment after the flush position we are considering, then the segment can be
turnOff, otherwise there is still "active" write for the column family so we
don't turn it off. But if that happens (i.e, if lastWrite >= flushPosition), it
means that the writes have been done in a newer memtable than the one we just
flushed. So the segment will be turnOff when the flush for that newer memtable
happens.
{quote}
you see that LocationInfo being flushed already, twice, once at position 0,
once at 174, then right after that, it tries to discard the segment, but
complains that it's dirty, and the only dirty bit is locationInfo itself. that
is the part that doesn't sound right.
{quote}
That log is not fully conclusive, because it is entirely possible that there
has been some write to that commit log after the second flush position. In
which case it's ok to not unmark LocationInfo.
In particular, the last line of the log:
{noformat}
DEBUG [COMMIT-LOG-WRITER] 2011-10-02 04:22:59,573 CommitLog.java (line 502) Not
safe to delete commit log
CommitLogSegment(/mnt/cass/lib/cassandra/commitlog/CommitLog-1317524063739.log);
dirty is LocationInfo (0), ; hasNext: false
{norormat}
shows that the segment is the active one (hasNext == false), so it's perfectly
reasonable to think there has been some write since position 174. The log is
missing the value of lastWrite in the message to be able to say if it's the
case.
> accumulated 100GB of commit logs
> --------------------------------
>
> Key: CASSANDRA-3269
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3269
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 1.0.0
> Reporter: Yang Yang
> Assignee: Sylvain Lebresne
> Priority: Critical
> Fix For: 1.0.0
>
> Attachments: 3269-v2.txt, 3269-v3.txt, 3269.patch
>
>
> I ran my cluster for about 2 days. the cluster has 2 nodes. I restarted one
> box several times, and the other one was always running. the one always
> running ended up accumulating 100GB of commit logs.
> this is 1.0.0 code from about Sept 15 in github. I kept the original setting
> for
> #commitlog_total_space_in_mb: 4096
> i.e. commented out
> here is some sample of the output:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 yyang yyang 134217857 2011-09-28 03:51
> CommitLog-1317181834810.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 yyang yyang 134217869 2011-09-28 03:50
> CommitLog-1317181764105.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 yyang yyang 134217783 2011-09-28 03:49
> CommitLog-1317181694633.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 yyang yyang 134217750 2011-09-28 02:39
> CommitLog-1317176955102.log
> yyang@ip-10-71-21-46:/mnt/cass/log/cassandra$ ls -lt
> /mnt/cass/lib//cassandra/commitlog/|wc -l
> 727
> yyang@ip-10-71-21-46:/mnt/cass/log/cassandra$ du -s
> /mnt/cass/lib/cassandra/commitlog/
> 95095316 /mnt/cass/lib/cassandra/commitlog/
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