What are the downsides of increasing cache-max-memory-size. With 128GB
setting it to 0 wont create any issues?
How large can it grow?
Will it improve performance if its increased?

Thank you!

On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 2:37 AM, Sean Beckett <[email protected]> wrote:

> You need to increase cache-max-memory-size. The default is 512mb which is
> fine for most workloads, but is too small for larger write volumes or
> higher cardinality datasets. If you have lots of RAM you could set it to 0
> to disable the limit and never get that error. You can also examine the
> memBytes stat on cache measurement to get a sense of how big the caches are
> in memory once the limit is raised.
>
> "cache-snapshot-memory-size" shouldn't be changed. Increasing it causes
> the cache in memory to be larger, which slows down snapshot compactions and
> increases startup time.
>
> The aborted compactions messages are informational and can be ignored. We
> will probably move those to trace level logging: https://github.com/
> influxdata/influxdb/issues/7425
>
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Dmitriy Akulov <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello, I dont completely understand what this error means. "write failed
>> for shard 143: engine: cache maximum memory size exceeded"
>> The server has 128GB of RAM and the config has default settings.
>> As far as I understand the "cache-max-memory-size" and
>> "cache-snapshot-memory-size" parameters are not related to RAM.
>> What exactly do they do? How they should be configured? Based on incoming
>> data? Based on RAM?
>>
>> What should I do to fix this?
>>
>> Also what exactly this message means "aborted level 1 group (0).
>> compaction in progress"?
>>
>> Log that contains both errors https://gist.githubusercontent
>> .com/jimaek/5f7fe91cc5f689273bed64401e564db1/raw/5aea6861548
>> a2f3d86940000f25576402bca29f5/gistfile1.txt
>>
>> Thank you
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