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Robert Coli commented on CASSANDRA-6357: ---------------------------------------- If it were to become the default to run with a distinct path for this, regardless of mount point, that would seem to potentially resolve CASSANDRA-6245 and CASSANDRA-6514, which relate to the potential of stepping on existing files in the datadir when flushing. > Flush memtables to separate directory > ------------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-6357 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6357 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Core > Reporter: Patrick McFadin > Assignee: Jonathan Ellis > Priority: Minor > Labels: performance > Fix For: 2.1 beta1 > > Attachments: 6357-v2.txt, 6357.txt, > c6357-stress-write-latency-99th-1.png > > > Flush writers are a critical element for keeping a node healthy. When several > compactions run on systems with low performing data directories, IO becomes a > premium. Once the disk subsystem is saturated, write IO is blocked which will > cause flush writer threads to backup. Since memtables are large blocks of > memory in the JVM, too much blocking can cause excessive GC over time > degrading performance. In the worst case causing an OOM. > Since compaction is running on the data directories. My proposal is to create > a separate directory for flushing memtables. Potentially we can use the same > methodology of keeping the commit log separate and minimize disk contention > against the critical function of the flushwriter. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.5#6160)