Hi Lingzhe,

>max_vm_num: indicates that a TsFileProcessor has at most the number of
virtual memory files

what does this mean? and how do I know what value is suitable? (For
example, if I set it as 1, is there any impact?)

Best,
-----------------------------------
Xiangdong Huang
School of Software, Tsinghua University

 黄向东
清华大学 软件学院


445073309 <[email protected]> 于2020年7月20日周一 下午12:42写道:

> Hi,
>
>
> I met a problem that iotdb will write small chunk data when lack of
> memtable num, this causes the system to query hot data more slowly.
>
>
> So I create a new type of file -- vm file, and use it to do hot compaction
> in flush processor. With this, we can flexiblily controll the size of each
> chunk. The configuration and usage changes will be described as follows:
> * add a new parameter enable_vm in iotdb-engine.properties: indicates
> whether to use virtual memory
> * use parameter avg_series_point_number_threshold in iotdb-engine.properties:
> indicates the minimum average number of chunk data points after hot
> compaction
> * add a new parameter max_vm_num in iotdb-engine.properties:
> indicates that a TsFileProcessor has at most the number of virtual memory
> files
> * add a new parameter max_merge_chunk_num_in_tsfile in 
> iotdb-engine.properties:
> indicates the vm files max merge times
> * the suffix of the vm file is'.vm', and the naming convention is
> {tsfile_name}-{level}-{timestamp}.vm
>
> And there are many detail changes like:
> * set virtual memory file list List<List<TsFileResource>>
> vmTsFileResources for each TsFileProcessor, add
> List<List<RestorableTsFileIOWriter>> vmWriters for management
> * in the recover process, the recovery of the vm file is newly added, and
> the corresponding TsFileProcessor is injected after the recovery
>
> The compaction strategy is now writen like LeveledCompactionStrategy in 
> Cassandra,
> and it can be optimized later.
>
> I put the detail zh-doc in the attachment.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Lingzhe Zhang
> School of Software, Tsinghua University
>
> 张凌哲
> 清华大学 软件学院
>

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