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Sylvain Lebresne commented on CASSANDRA-6357:
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Pinging [~benedict] for v4 review.
> Flush memtables to separate directory
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>
> 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 rc1
>
> Attachments: 6357-revert-v2.txt, 6357-revert-v3.txt,
> 6357-revert-v4.txt, 6357-revert.txt, 6357-v2.txt, 6357.txt,
> c6357-2.1-stress-write-adj-ops-sec.png,
> c6357-2.1-stress-write-latency-99th.png,
> c6357-2.1-stress-write-latency-median.png,
> 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.
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