[CASSANDRA-14147] AssertionError on MemtablePostFlush

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: 3.11.x, 5.x
• Component/s: Legacy/Local Write-Read Paths

Environment

• Apache Cassandra 3.11.0
• Windows Server 2016
• JVM vendor/version: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM/1.8.0_40

• Severity: Normal
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Enrique Guinto
• Created: 05/Jan/18 00:49
• Updated: 07/Mar/23 10:54

Description

I am seeing a lot of exceptions in my cluster

ERROR [MemtablePostFlush:194] 2018-01-05 00:19:50,354 CassandraDaemon.java:228 - Exception in thread Thread[MemtablePostFlush:194,5,main]
java.lang.AssertionError: null
	at org.apache.cassandra.cache.ChunkCache$CachingRebufferer.<init>(ChunkCache.java:222) ~[apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0]
	at org.apache.cassandra.cache.ChunkCache.wrap(ChunkCache.java:175) ~[apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0]
	at org.apache.cassandra.io.util.FileHandle$Builder.maybeCached(FileHandle.java:412) ~[apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0]
	at org.apache.cassandra.io.util.FileHandle$Builder.complete(FileHandle.java:381) ~[apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0]
	at org.apache.cassandra.io.util.FileHandle$Builder.complete(FileHandle.java:331) ~[apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0]
	at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.format.big.BigTableWriter.openFinal(BigTableWriter.java:333) ~[apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0]
	at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.format.big.BigTableWriter.access$600(BigTableWriter.java:53) ~[apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0]
	at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.format.big.BigTableWriter$TransactionalProxy.doPrepare(BigTableWriter.java:374) ~[apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0]
	at org.apache.cassandra.utils.concurrent.Transactional$AbstractTransactional.prepareToCommit(Transactional.java:173) ~[apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0]
	at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.format.SSTableWriter.prepareToCommit(SSTableWriter.java:281) ~[apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0]
	at org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SimpleSSTableMultiWriter.prepareToCommit(SimpleSSTableMultiWriter.java:101) ~[apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0]
	at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore$Flush.flushMemtable(ColumnFamilyStore.java:1153) ~[apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0]
	at org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore$Flush.run(ColumnFamilyStore.java:1088) ~[apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0]
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) ~[na:1.8.0_40]
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) [na:1.8.0_40]
	at org.apache.cassandra.concurrent.NamedThreadFactory.lambda$threadLocalDeallocator$0(NamedThreadFactory.java:81) [apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0]
	at org.apache.cassandra.concurrent.NamedThreadFactory$$Lambda$4/406765571.run(Unknown Source) [apache-cassandra-3.11.0.jar:3.11.0]
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [na:1.8.0_40]

This seems to have the side effect of commit log not being cleaned up. Is this similar to issue CASSANDRA-13897 ?
Is there a work around for this?
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Issue Links

• relates to: CASSANDRA-13897 nodetool compact and flush fail with "error: null"