317brian commented on code in PR #16681: URL: https://github.com/apache/druid/pull/16681#discussion_r1802082948
########## docs/data-management/automatic-compaction.md: ########## @@ -221,6 +223,133 @@ The following auto-compaction configuration compacts updates the `wikipedia` seg } ``` +## Auto-compaction using compaction supervisors + +:::info Experimental +Compaction supervisors are experimental. For production use, we recommend [Coordinator-based auto-compaction](#auto-compaction-using-coordinator-duties). +::: + +You can run automatic compaction using compaction supervisors on the Overlord rather than Coordinator duties. Compaction supervisors provide the following benefits over Coordinator duties: + +* Can use the supervisor framework to get information about the auto-compaction, such as status or state +* More easily suspend or resume compaction for a datasource +* Can use either the native compaction engine or the [MSQ task engine](#use-msq-for-auto-compaction) +* More reactive and submits tasks as soon as a compaction slot is available Review Comment: That can come once the feature is more developed -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
