[CASSANDRA-11063] Unable to compute ceiling for max when histogram overflowed

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: Local/Compaction
• Labels: Compaction thread

Environment

Cassandra 2.1.9 on RHEL

• Severity: Normal
• Since Version: 2.1.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Navjyot Nishant
• Created: 23/Jan/16 13:49
• Updated: 06/Oct/20 20:29
• Resolved: 06/Oct/20 20:29

Description

Issue https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8028 seems related with error we are getting. But we are getting this with Cassandra 2.1.9 when autocompaction is running it keeps throwing following errors, we are unsure if its a bug or can be resolved, please suggest.

WARN  [CompactionExecutor:3] 2016-01-23 13:30:40,907 SSTableWriter.java:240 - Compacting large partition gccatlgsvcks/category_name_dedup:66611300 (138152195 bytes)
ERROR [CompactionExecutor:1] 2016-01-23 13:30:50,267 CassandraDaemon.java:223 - Exception in thread Thread[CompactionExecutor:1,1,main]
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unable to compute ceiling for max when histogram overflowed
        at org.apache.cassandra.utils.EstimatedHistogram.mean(EstimatedHistogram.java:203) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9]
        at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.metadata.StatsMetadata.getEstimatedDroppableTombstoneRatio(StatsMetadata.java:98) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9]
        at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableReader.getEstimatedDroppableTombstoneRatio(SSTableReader.java:1987) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9]
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.AbstractCompactionStrategy.worthDroppingTombstones(AbstractCompactionStrategy.java:370) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9]
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.SizeTieredCompactionStrategy.getNextBackgroundSSTables(SizeTieredCompactionStrategy.java:96) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9]
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.SizeTieredCompactionStrategy.getNextBackgroundTask(SizeTieredCompactionStrategy.java:179) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9]
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.WrappingCompactionStrategy.getNextBackgroundTask(WrappingCompactionStrategy.java:84) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9]
        at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.CompactionManager$BackgroundCompactionCandidate.run(CompactionManager.java:230) ~[apache-cassandra-2.1.9.jar:2.1.9]
        at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) ~[na:1.7.0_51]
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262) ~[na:1.7.0_51]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) ~[na:1.7.0_51]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [na:1.7.0_51]
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) [na:1.7.0_51]

Additional info:

cfstats is running fine for that table...

~ $ nodetool cfstats gccatlgsvcks.category_name_dedup
Keyspace: gccatlgsvcks
        Read Count: 0
        Read Latency: NaN ms.
        Write Count: 0
        Write Latency: NaN ms.
        Pending Flushes: 0
                Table: category_name_dedup
                SSTable count: 6
                Space used (live): 836314727
                Space used (total): 836314727
                Space used by snapshots (total): 3621519
                Off heap memory used (total): 6930368
                SSTable Compression Ratio: 0.03725358753117693
                Number of keys (estimate): 3004
                Memtable cell count: 0
                Memtable data size: 0
                Memtable off heap memory used: 0
                Memtable switch count: 0
                Local read count: 0
                Local read latency: NaN ms
                Local write count: 0
                Local write latency: NaN ms
                Pending flushes: 0
                Bloom filter false positives: 0
                Bloom filter false ratio: 0.00000
                Bloom filter space used: 5240
                Bloom filter off heap memory used: 5192
                Index summary off heap memory used: 1200
                Compression metadata off heap memory used: 6923976
                Compacted partition minimum bytes: 125
                Compacted partition maximum bytes: 30753941057
                Compacted partition mean bytes: 8352388
                Average live cells per slice (last five minutes): 0.0
                Maximum live cells per slice (last five minutes): 0.0
                Average tombstones per slice (last five minutes): 0.0
                Maximum tombstones per slice (last five minutes): 0.0

cfhistograms is also running fine...

~ $ nodetool cfhistograms gccatlgsvcks category_name_dedup
gccatlgsvcks/category_name_dedup histograms
Percentile  SSTables     Write Latency      Read Latency    Partition Size        Cell Count
                              (micros)          (micros)           (bytes)
50%             0.00              0.00              0.00              1109                20
75%             0.00              0.00              0.00              2299                42
95%             0.00              0.00              0.00             11864               215
98%             0.00              0.00              0.00             35425               642
99%             0.00              0.00              0.00             51012               924
Min             0.00              0.00              0.00               125                 4
Max             0.00              0.00              0.00       30753941057         268650950

Issue Links

• duplicates: CASSANDRA-11117 ColUpdateTimeDeltaHistogram histogram overflow