BLoom filters... nevermind

On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 4:48 PM, Carl Mueller <carl.muel...@smartthings.com>
wrote:

> Is the current reason for a large starting heap due to the memtable?
>
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 4:44 PM, Carl Mueller <
> carl.muel...@smartthings.com> wrote:
>
>>  ... compaction on its own jvm was also something I was thinking about,
>> but then I realized even more JVM sharding could be done at the table level.
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 4:09 PM, Jon Haddad <j...@jonhaddad.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah, I’m in the compaction on it’s own JVM camp, in an ideal world
>>> where we’re isolating crazy GC churning parts of the DB.  It would mean
>>> reworking how tasks are created and removal of all shared state in favor of
>>> messaging + a smarter manager, which imo would be a good idea regardless.
>>>
>>> It might be a better use of time (especially for 4.0) to do some GC
>>> performance profiling and cut down on the allocations, since that doesn’t
>>> involve a massive effort.
>>>
>>> I’ve been meaning to do a little benchmarking and profiling for a while
>>> now, and it seems like a few others have the same inclination as well,
>>> maybe now is a good time to coordinate that.  A nice perf bump for 4.0
>>> would be very rewarding.
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
>>> > On Feb 22, 2018, at 2:00 PM, Nate McCall <zznat...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > I've heard a couple of folks pontificate on compaction in its own
>>> > process as well, given it has such a high impact on GC. Not sure about
>>> > the value of individual tables. Interesting idea though.
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 10:45 AM, Gary Dusbabek <gdusba...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >> I've given it some thought in the past. In the end, I usually talk
>>> myself
>>> >> out of it because I think it increases the surface area for failure.
>>> That
>>> >> is, managing N processes is more difficult that managing one process.
>>> But
>>> >> if the additional failure modes are addressed, there are some
>>> interesting
>>> >> possibilities.
>>> >>
>>> >> For example, having gossip in its own process would decrease the odds
>>> that
>>> >> a node is marked dead because STW GC is happening in the storage JVM.
>>> On
>>> >> the flipside, you'd need checks to make sure that the gossip process
>>> can
>>> >> recognize when the storage process has died vs just running a long GC.
>>> >>
>>> >> I don't know that I'd go so far as to have separate processes for
>>> >> keyspaces, etc.
>>> >>
>>> >> There is probably some interesting work that could be done to support
>>> the
>>> >> orgs who run multiple cassandra instances on the same node (multiple
>>> >> gossipers in that case is at least a little wasteful).
>>> >>
>>> >> I've also played around with using domain sockets for IPC inside of
>>> >> cassandra. I never ran a proper benchmark, but there were some
>>> throughput
>>> >> advantages to this approach.
>>> >>
>>> >> Cheers,
>>> >>
>>> >> Gary.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 8:39 PM, Carl Mueller <
>>> carl.muel...@smartthings.com>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>> GC pauses may have been improved in newer releases, since we are in
>>> 2.1.x,
>>> >>> but I was wondering why cassandra uses one jvm for all tables and
>>> >>> keyspaces, intermingling the heap for on-JVM objects.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> ... so why doesn't cassandra spin off a jvm per table so each jvm
>>> can be
>>> >>> tuned per table and gc tuned and gc impacts not impact other tables?
>>> It
>>> >>> would probably increase the number of endpoints if we avoid having an
>>> >>> overarching query router.
>>> >>>
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