[CASSANDRA-18793] Fix or remove nodetool compaction completion time estimate

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: 5.x
• Component/s: Local/Compaction
• Bug Category: Correctness - Transient Incorrect Response
• Severity: Normal
• Complexity: Normal
• Discovered By: User Report
• Platform: All
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jonathan Ellis
• Created: 23/Aug/23 15:38
• Updated: 24/Aug/23 08:14

Description

It looks like many years ago the author of this code thought that the compactionthroughput from the server was the current rate when it is actually the configured maximum.  So using it to estimate time remaining is not useful.