[CASSANDRA-15403] Throttle sstable hardlink creation/removal

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Fix Version/s: 4.1-alpha1, 4.1
• Component/s: Local/SSTable
• Bug Category: Degradation - Resource Management
• Severity: Low
• Complexity: Low Hanging Fruit
• Discovered By: User Report
• Platform: All
• Assignee: Jeff Jirsa
• Reporter: Jeff Jirsa

Authors

Jeff Jirsa

• Created: 07/Nov/19 04:57
• Updated: 16/Dec/22 21:56
• Resolved: 07/Nov/19 14:45

Description

When there are tens of thousands of sstables, the snapshot and clear snapshot operations can impact performance of the database itself. Adding a rate limiter to the snapshot creation and deletion paths can improve response times

Issue Links

• duplicates: CASSANDRA-13019 Improve clearsnapshot to delete the snapshot files slowly