To recap the problem,
1.1.6 on SSD, 5 nodes, RF = 3, one CF only.
After data load, initially all 5 nodes have very even data size (135G, each). I
ran nodetool repair -pr on node 1 which have replicates on node 2, node 3 since
we set RF = 3.
It appears that huge amount of data got transferred. Node 1 has 220G, node 2, 3
have around 170G. Pending LCS task on node 1 is 15K and node 2, 3 have around
7K each.
Questions:
* Why nodetool repair increases the data size that much? It's not likely
that much data needs to be repaired. Will that happen for all the subsequent
repair?
* How to make LCS run faster? After almost a day, the LCS tasks only
dropped by 1000. I am afraid it will never catch up. We set
* compaction_throughput_mb_per_sec = 500
* multithreaded_compaction: true
Both Disk and CPU util are less than 10%. I understand LCS is single threaded,
any chance to speed it up?
* We use default SSTable size as 5M, Will increase the size of SSTable
help? What will happen if I change the setting after the data is loaded.
Any suggestion is very much appreciated.
-Wei
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wei Zhu" <wz1...@yahoo.com>
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:46:04 PM
Subject: Re: Cassandra pending compaction tasks keeps increasing
I believe I am running into this one:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4765
By the way, I am using 1.1.6 (I though I was using 1.1.7) and this one is fixed
in 1.1.7.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wei Zhu" <wz1...@yahoo.com>
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:18:59 PM
Subject: Re: Cassandra pending compaction tasks keeps increasing
Thanks Derek,
in the cassandra-env.sh, it says
# reduce the per-thread stack size to minimize the impact of Thrift
# thread-per-client. (Best practice is for client connections to
# be pooled anyway.) Only do so on Linux where it is known to be
# supported.
# u34 and greater need 180k
JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -Xss180k"
What value should I use? Java defaults at 400K? Maybe try that first.
Thanks.
-Wei
----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek Williams" <de...@fyrie.net>
To: user@cassandra.apache.org, "Wei Zhu" <wz1...@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:06:00 PM
Subject: Re: Cassandra pending compaction tasks keeps increasing
Increasing the stack size in cassandra-env.sh should help you get past the
stack overflow. Doesn't help with your original problem though.
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:00 AM, Wei Zhu < wz1...@yahoo.com > wrote:
Well, even after restart, it throws the the same exception. I am basically
stuck. Any suggestion to clear the pending compaction tasks? Below is the end
of stack trace:
at com.google.common.collect.Sets$1.iterator(Sets.java:578)
at com.google.common.collect.Sets$1.iterator(Sets.java:578)
at com.google.common.collect.Sets$1.iterator(Sets.java:578)
at com.google.common.collect.Sets$1.iterator(Sets.java:578)
at com.google.common.collect.Sets$3.iterator(Sets.java:667)
at com.google.common.collect.Sets$3.size(Sets.java:670)
at com.google.common.collect.Iterables.size(Iterables.java:80)
at org.apache.cassandra.db.DataTracker.buildIntervalTree(DataTracker.java:557)
at
org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.CompactionController.<init>(CompactionController.java:69)
at
org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.CompactionTask.execute(CompactionTask.java:105)
at
org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.LeveledCompactionTask.execute(LeveledCompactionTask.java:50)
at
org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.CompactionManager$1.runMayThrow(CompactionManager.java:154)
at org.apache.cassandra.utils.WrappedRunnable.run(WrappedRunnable.java:30)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Any suggestion is very much appreciated
-Wei
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wei Zhu" < wz1...@yahoo.com >
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 10:55:07 PM
Subject: Re: Cassandra pending compaction tasks keeps increasing
Do you mean 90% of the reads should come from 1 SSTable?
By the way, after I finished the data migrating, I ran nodetool repair -pr on
one of the nodes. Before nodetool repair, all the nodes have the same disk
space usage. After I ran the nodetool repair, the disk space for that node
jumped from 135G to 220G, also there are more than 15000 pending compaction
tasks. After a while , Cassandra started to throw the exception like below and
stop compacting. I had to restart the node. By the way, we are using 1.1.7.
Something doesn't seem right.
INFO [CompactionExecutor:108804] 2013-01-24 22:23:10,427 CompactionTask.java
(line 109) Compacting
[SSTableReader(path='/ssd/cassandra/data/zoosk/friends/zoosk-friends-hf-753782-Data.db')]
INFO [CompactionExecutor:108804] 2013-01-24 22:23:11,610 CompactionTask.java
(line 221) Compacted to
[/ssd/cassandra/data/zoosk/friends/zoosk-friends-hf-754996-Data.db,]. 5,259,403
to 5,259,403 (~100% of original) bytes for 1,983 keys at 4.268730MB/s. Time:
1,175ms.
INFO [CompactionExecutor:108805] 2013-01-24 22:23:11,617 CompactionTask.java
(line 109) Compacting
[SSTableReader(path='/ssd/cassandra/data/zoosk/friends/zoosk-friends-hf-754880-Data.db')]
INFO [CompactionExecutor:108805] 2013-01-24 22:23:12,828 CompactionTask.java
(line 221) Compacted to
[/ssd/cassandra/data/zoosk/friends/zoosk-friends-hf-754997-Data.db,]. 5,272,746
to 5,272,746 (~100% of original) bytes for 1,941 keys at 4.152339MB/s. Time:
1,211ms.
ERROR [CompactionExecutor:108806] 2013-01-24 22:23:13,048
AbstractCassandraDaemon.java (line 135) Exception in thread
Thread[CompactionExecutor:108806,1,main]
java.lang.StackOverflowError
at java.util.AbstractList$Itr.hasNext(Unknown Source)
at com.google.common.collect.Iterators$5.hasNext(Iterators.java:517)
at com.google.common.collect.Iterators$3.hasNext(Iterators.java:114)
at com.google.common.collect.Iterators$5.hasNext(Iterators.java:517)
at com.google.common.collect.Iterators$3.hasNext(Iterators.java:114)
at com.google.common.collect.Iterators$5.hasNext(Iterators.java:517)
at com.google.common.collect.Iterators$3.hasNext(Iterators.java:114)
at com.google.common.collect.Iterators$5.hasNext(Iterators.java:517)
at com.google.common.collect.Iterators$3.hasNext(Iterators.java:114)
----- Original Message -----
From: "aaron morton" < aa...@thelastpickle.com >
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 2:40:45 PM
Subject: Re: Cassandra pending compaction tasks keeps increasing
The histogram does not look right to me, too many SSTables for an LCS CF.
It's a symptom no a cause. If LCS is catching up though it should be more like
the distribution in the linked article.
Cheers
-----------------
Aaron Morton
Freelance Cassandra Developer
New Zealand
@aaronmorton
http://www.thelastpickle.com
On 23/01/2013, at 10:57 AM, Jim Cistaro < jcist...@netflix.com > wrote:
What version are you using? Are you seeing any compaction related assertions in
the logs?
Might be https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4411
We experienced this problem of the count only decreasing to a certain number
and then stopping. If you are idle, it should go to 0. I have not seen it
overestimate for zero, only for non-zero amounts.
As for timeouts etc, you will need to look at things like nodetool tpstats to
see if you have pending transactions queueing up.
Jc
From: Wei Zhu < wz1...@yahoo.com >
Reply-To: " user@cassandra.apache.org " < user@cassandra.apache.org >, Wei Zhu
< wz1...@yahoo.com >
Date: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:56 PM
To: " user@cassandra.apache.org " < user@cassandra.apache.org >
Subject: Re: Cassandra pending compaction tasks keeps increasing
Thanks Aaron and Jim for your reply. The data import is done. We have about
135G on each node and it's about 28K SStables. For normal operation, we only
have about 90 writes per seconds, but when I ran nodetool compationstats, it
remains at 9 and hardly changes. I guess it's just an estimated number.
When I ran histogram,
Offset SSTables Write Latency Read Latency Row Size Column Count
1 2644 0 0 0 18660057
2 8204 0 0 0 9824270
3 11198 0 0 0 6968475
4 4269 6 0 0 5510745
5 517 29 0 0 4595205
You can see about half of the reads result in 3 SSTables. Majority of read
latency are under 5ms, only a dozen are over 10ms. We haven't fully turn on
reads yet, only 60 reads per second. We see about 20 read timeout during the
past 12 hours. Not a single warning from Cassandra Log.
Is it normal for Cassandra to timeout some requests? We set rpc timeout to be
1s, it shouldn't time out any of them?
Thanks.
-Wei
From: aaron morton < aa...@thelastpickle.com >
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 12:21 AM
Subject: Re: Cassandra pending compaction tasks keeps increasing
The main guarantee LCS gives you is that most reads will only touch 1 row
http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/when-to-use-leveled-compaction
If compaction is falling behind this may not hold.
nodetool cfhistograms tells you how many SSTables were read from for reads.
It's a recent histogram that resets each time you read from it.
Also, parallel levelled compaction in 1.2
http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/performance-improvements-in-cassandra-1-2
Cheers
-----------------
Aaron Morton
Freelance Cassandra Developer
New Zealand
@aaronmorton
http://www.thelastpickle.com
On 20/01/2013, at 7:49 AM, Jim Cistaro < jcist...@netflix.com > wrote:
1) In addition to iostat, dstat is a good tool to see wht kind of disck
throuput your are getting. That would be one thing to monitor.
2) For LCS, we also see pending compactions skyrocket. During load, LCS will
create a lot of small sstables which will queue up for compaction.
3) For us the biggest concern is not how high the pending count gets, but how
often it gets back down near zero. If your load is something you can do in
segments or pause, then you can see how fast the cluster recovers on the
compactions.
4) One thing which we tune per cluster is the size of the files. Increasing
this from 5MB can sometimes improve things. But I forget if we have ever
changed this after starting data load.
Is your cluster receiving read traffic during this data migration? If so, I
would say that read latency is your best measure. If the high number of
SSTables waiting to compact is not hurting your reads, then you are probably
ok. Since you are on SSD, there is a good chance the compactions are not
hurting you. As for compactionthroughput, we set ours high for SSD. You usually
wont use it all because the compactions are usually single threaded. Dstat will
help you measure this.
I hope this helps,
jc
From: Wei Zhu < wz1...@yahoo.com >
Reply-To: " user@cassandra.apache.org " < user@cassandra.apache.org >, Wei Zhu
< wz1...@yahoo.com >
Date: Friday, January 18, 2013 12:10 PM
To: Cassandr usergroup < user@cassandra.apache.org >
Subject: Cassandra pending compaction tasks keeps increasing
Hi,
When I run nodetool compactionstats
I see the number of pending tasks keep going up steadily.
I tried to increase the compactionthroughput, by using
nodetool setcompactionthroughput
I even tried the extreme to set it to 0 to disable the throttling.
I checked iostats and we have SSD for data, the disk util is less than 5% which
means it's not I/O bound, CPU is also less than 10%
We are using levelcompaction and in the process of migrating data. We have 4500
writes per second and very few reads. We have about 70G data now and will grow
to 150G when the migration finishes. We only have one CF and right now the
number of SSTable is around 15000, write latency is still under 0.1ms.
Anything needs to be concerned? Or anything I can do to reduce the number of
pending compaction?
Thanks.
-Wei
--
Derek Williams
