Small correction: we are making writes in 5 cf an reading frm one at high speeds.
Thanks Anuj Wadehra Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android From:"Anuj Wadehra" <anujw_2...@yahoo.co.in> Date:Mon, 20 Apr, 2015 at 7:53 pm Subject:Handle Write Heavy Loads in Cassandra 2.0.3 Hi, Recently, we discovered that millions of mutations were getting dropped on our cluster. Eventually, we solved this problem by increasing the value of memtable_flush_writers from 1 to 3. We usually write 3 CFs simultaneously an one of them has 4 Secondary Indexes. New changes also include: concurrent_compactors: 12 (earlier it was default) compaction_throughput_mb_per_sec: 32(earlier it was default) in_memory_compaction_limit_in_mb: 400 ((earlier it was default 64) memtable_flush_writers: 3 (earlier 1) After, making above changes, our write heavy workload scenarios started giving "promotion failed" exceptions in gc logs. We have done JVM tuning and Cassandra config changes to solve this: MAX_HEAP_SIZE="12G" (Increased Heap to from 8G to reduce fragmentation) HEAP_NEWSIZE="3G" JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -XX:SurvivorRatio=2" (We observed that even at SurvivorRatio=4, our survivor space was getting 100% utilized under heavy write load and we thought that minor collections were directly promoting objects to Tenured generation) JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=20" (Lots of objects were moving from Eden to Tenured on each minor collection..may be related to medium life objects related to Memtables and compactions as suggested by heapdump) JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -XX:ConcGCThreads=20" JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions" JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -XX:+UseGCTaskAffinity" JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -XX:+BindGCTaskThreadsToCPUs" JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -XX:ParGCCardsPerStrideChunk=32768" JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -XX:+CMSScavengeBeforeRemark" JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -XX:CMSMaxAbortablePrecleanTime=30000" JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -XX:CMSWaitDuration=2000" //though it's default value JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -XX:+CMSEdenChunksRecordAlways" JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -XX:+CMSParallelInitialMarkEnabled" JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -XX:-UseBiasedLocking" JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=70" (to avoid concurrent failures we reduced value) Cassandra config: compaction_throughput_mb_per_sec: 24 memtable_total_space_in_mb: 1000 (to make memtable flush frequent.default is 1/4 heap which creates more long lived objects) Questions: 1. Why increasing memtable_flush_writers and in_memory_compaction_limit_in_mb caused promotion failures in JVM? Does more memtable_flush_writers mean more memtables in memory? 2. Still, objects are getting promoted at high speed to Tenured space. CMS is running on Old gen every 4-5 minutes under heavy write load. Around 750+ minor collections of upto 300ms happened in 45 mins. Do you see any problems with new JVM tuning and Cassandra config? Is the justification given against those changes sounds logical? Any suggestions? 3. What is the best practice for reducing heap fragmentation/promotion failure when allocation and promotion rates are high? Thanks Anuj
