[CASSANDRA-5272] Hinted Handoff Throttle based on cluster size

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.6
• Labels: lhf
• Assignee: Jonathan Ellis
• Reporter: Rick Branson

Authors

Jonathan Ellis

Reviewers

Rick Branson

• Tester: Daniel Meyer
• Created: 19/Feb/13 22:37
• Updated: 10/Jul/20 13:49
• Resolved: 29/May/13 20:00

Description

For a 12-node EC2 m1.xlarge cluster, restarting a node causes it to get completely overloaded with the default 2-thread, 1024KB setting in 1.2.x. This seemed to be a smaller problem when it was 6-nodes, but still required us to abort handoffs. The old defaults in 1.1.x were WAY more conservative. I've dropped this way down to 128KB on our production cluster which is really conservative, but appears to have solved it. The default seems way too high on any cluster that is non-trivial in size.

After putting some thought to this, it seems that this should really be based on cluster size, making the throttle a "target" for how much write load a single node can swallow. As the cluster grows, the amount of hints that can be delivered by each other node in the cluster goes down, so the throttle should self-adjust to take that into account.

Issue Links

• causes: CASSANDRA-15859 Avoid per-host hinted-handoff throttle being rounded to 0 in large cluster