> I would think that compaction_throughput_kb_per_sec does have indirect impact > on disk IO. High number means or setting it to 0 means there is no > throttling on how much IO is being performed. Wouldn't it impact normal > reads from disk during the time when disk IO or util is high which > compaction is taking place?
It would. I don't think anyone intended to say otherwise; but the setting itself does not directly change the behavior of flushes or reads. I think that's what jbellis meant. I.e., there is no throttling of flushes or reads. -- / Peter Schuller (@scode on twitter)
