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wangningito commented on KUDU-3197:
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!image-2020-12-02-19-59-46-733.png!
a not elegant work around for this special case: replace table with new table
within cluster in 2 steps
# copy data within cluster via 'kudu copy', thus new table has only latest
schema
# drop old table and rename the new table to old one, (if has impala table,
external change to true then false)
> Tablet keeps all history schemas in memory may result in high memory
> consumption
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> Key: KUDU-3197
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KUDU-3197
> Project: Kudu
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: tablet
> Affects Versions: 1.12.0
> Reporter: wangningito
> Assignee: wangningito
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: image-2020-09-25-14-45-33-402.png,
> image-2020-09-25-14-49-30-913.png, image-2020-09-25-15-05-44-948.png,
> image-2020-12-02-19-59-46-733.png, screenshot-1.png
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> In case of high frequency of updating table, memory consumption of
> kudu-tserver may be very high, and the memory in not tracked in the memory
> page.
> This is the memory usage of a tablet, the memory consumption of tablet-xxx‘s
> peak is 3.6G， but none of its' childrens' memory can reach.
> !image-2020-09-25-14-45-33-402.png!
> So I use pprof to get the heap sampling. The tserver started for long but the
> memory is still consuming by TabletBootstrap:PlayAlterSchemaRequest.
> !image-2020-09-25-14-49-30-913.png!
> I change the `old_schemas_` in tablet_metadata.h to a fixed size vector,
> // Previous values of 'schema_'.
> // These are currently kept alive forever, under the assumption that
> // a given tablet won't have thousands of "alter table" calls.
> // They are kept alive so that callers of schema() don't need to
> // worry about reference counting or locking.
> std::vector<Schema*> old_schemas_;
> The heap sampling then becomes
> !image-2020-09-25-15-05-44-948.png!
> So, to make application layer more flexible, it could be better to make the
> size of the old_schemas configurable.
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