The operation will run in a single anti-compaction thread so it won't consume more than 1 CPU. The operation will mostly be IO-bound with the disk being the most bottleneck. Are running it on a direct-attached SSD? It won't perform well if you're running it on an EBS volume or some other slow disk. Cheers!
- sstable processing times James A. Robinson
- Re: sstable processing times Erick Ramirez