[CASSANDRA-2407] Compaction thread should try to empty a bucket before moving on

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.1.0
• Labels: compaction
• Assignee: Jonathan Ellis
• Reporter: Stu Hood

Authors

Jonathan Ellis

Reviewers

Sylvain Lebresne

• Created: 31/Mar/11 05:29
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:33
• Resolved: 18/Nov/11 16:43

Description

As suggested by Aaron Morton (1), a compaction thread should attempt to empty a bucket before moving on to a larger bucket. This would change the submitMinorIfNeeded for loop into a while loop that regenerated the buckets and started from the bottom after each successful compaction.