We have some production Solaris boxes so I can't use SnappyCompressor (no library included for Solaris), so I set it to JavaDeflate. I've also noticed higher load issues with 1.1.0 versus 1.0.6: could this be JavaDeflate, or is that what the old default was? Anyway, I thought I would try no compression, since I found code like this in one of the issue discussions with SnappyCompression.
public class NullCompressor implements ICompressor { public static final NullCompressor instance = new NullCompressor(); public static NullCompressor create( Map<String, String> compressionOptions ) { return instance; } public int initialCompressedBufferLength( int chunkLength ) { return chunkLength; } public int compress( byte[] input, int inputOffset, int inputLength, ICompressor.WrappedArray output, int outputOffset ) throws IOException { System.arraycopy( input, inputOffset, output.buffer, outputOffset, inputLength ); return inputLength; } public int uncompress( byte[] input, int inputOffset, int inputLength, byte[] output, int outputOffset ) throws IOException { System.arraycopy( input, inputOffset, output, outputOffset, inputLength ); return inputLength; } } But now I get some curious errors in Cassandra log, that I haven't seen previously: ERROR [ReadStage:294] 2012-05-18 15:33:40,039 AbstractCassandraDaemon.java (line 134) Exception in thread Thread[ReadStage:294,5,main] java.lang.AssertionError: DecoratedKey(105946799083363489728328364782061531811, 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) != DecoratedKey(53124083656910387079795798648228312597, 5448535f323739) in /home/apollo/cassandra/data/ggstores3/ndx_items_category/ggstores3-ndx_items_category-hc-1-Data.db at org.apache.cassandra.db.columniterator.SSTableSliceIterator.<init>(SSTableSliceIterator.java:58) at org.apache.cassandra.db.filter.SliceQueryFilter.getSSTableColumnIterator(SliceQueryFilter.java:66) at org.apache.cassandra.db.filter.QueryFilter.getSSTableColumnIterator(QueryFilter.java:78) at org.apache.cassandra.db.CollationController.collectAllData(CollationController.java:233) at org.apache.cassandra.db.CollationController.getTopLevelColumns(CollationController.java:61) at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.getTopLevelColumns(ColumnFamilyStore.java:1273) at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.getColumnFamily(ColumnFamilyStore.java:1155) at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.getColumnFamily(ColumnFamilyStore.java:1090) at org.apache.cassandra.db.Table.getRow(Table.java:360) at org.apache.cassandra.db.SliceFromReadCommand.getRow(SliceFromReadCommand.java:69) at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageProxy$LocalReadRunnable.runMayThrow(StorageProxy.java:816) at org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageProxy$DroppableRunnable.run(StorageProxy.java:1250) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) It sure seems like my pass-through compressor triggered this. Any thoughts? Ron