[CASSANDRA-19326] Switch memtable_allocation_type from offheap_objects to heap_buffers in test/conf/cassandra.yaml

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.30, 3.11.17, 4.0.12, 4.1.4, 5.0-rc, 5.1
• Component/s: CI
• Change Category: Quality Assurance
• Complexity: Low Hanging Fruit
• Platform: All

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/aa561f2373e90f78d4af92d490a6236c40acccd7

Test and Documentation Plan

Tested the flip with all affected branches:
CI 3.11: https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/ekaterinadimitrova2/cassandra?branch=19326-3.11

• test_dead_sync_initiator - CASSANDRA-17702
• testReprepareMixedVersionWithoutReset - CASSANDRA-18021
• throttledValidationIsSlowerThanUnthrottledValidationTest - new one, I will open a ticket.

CI 4.0: https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/ekaterinadimitrova2/cassandra?branch=19326-4.0

• testTruncationReleasesLogSpace - CASSANDRA-17298
• test_drop_with_stopped_build - CASSANDRA-17886
• test_shutdown_wiped_node_cannot_join - CASSANDRA-19097

CI 4.1: https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/ekaterinadimitrova2/cassandra?branch=19326-4.1

• testSize[skiplist] - known to be flaky from CASSANDRA-16684

CI 5.0: https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/ekaterinadimitrova2/cassandra?branch=19167-5.0 #2629
This is a test run from CASSANDRA-19167

• bootstrap_test tests - CASSANDRA-19097
• org.apache.cassandra.index.sai.cql.VectorUpdateDeleteTest.updateTest - CASSANDRA-19168
• sandwichBetweenUDTs - CASSANDRA-19095 and CASSANDRA-19185
• org.apache.cassandra.index.sai.cql.RandomIntersectionTest.randomIntersectionTest[Small partition restricted high high]-system_keyspace_directory_jdk17 - CASSANDRA-19327
• testSparseMode-trie_jdk17 - CASSANDRA-13169

CI trunk: https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/ekaterinadimitrova2/cassandra?branch=19326-trunk

• testOptionalMtlsModeDoNotAllowNonSSLConnections-cassandra.testtag_IS_UNDEFINED - CASSANDRA-19239
• randomIntersectionTest[Small partition restricted low low]-_jdk17 - CASSANDRA-19327
• updateTest-_jdk17 - CASSANDRA-19167
• udf-cassandra.testtag_IS_UNDEFINED - CASSANDRA-19168

• Assignee: Ekaterina Dimitrova
• Reporter: Ekaterina Dimitrova

Authors

Ekaterina Dimitrova

Reviewers

Brandon Williams

• Created: 25/Jan/24 16:33
• Updated: 31/Jan/24 16:34
• Resolved: 31/Jan/24 16:34

Description

By default we use heap_buffers in cassandra.yaml, but the unit tests were switched for testing to offheap_objects. This needs to be reverted. We should be testing with heap_buffers on all branches, we do it only in cassandra-3.0 at the moment.