[CASSANDRA-6563] TTL histogram compactions not triggered at high "Estimated droppable tombstones" rate

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.9
• Component/s: Local/Compaction

Environment

1.2.12ish

• Severity: Normal
• Assignee: Paulo Motta
• Reporter: Chris Burroughs

Authors

Paulo Motta

Reviewers

Marcus Eriksson

• Created: 09/Jan/14 17:30
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:31
• Resolved: 27/May/14 08:53

Description

I have several column families in a largish cluster where virtually all columns are written with a (usually the same) TTL. My understanding of CASSANDRA-3442 is that sstables that have a high ( > 20%) estimated percentage of droppable tombstones should be individually compacted. This does not appear to be occurring with size tired compaction.

Example from one node:

$ ll /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/*Data.db
-rw-rw-r-- 31 cassandra cassandra 26651211757 Nov 26 22:59 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-295562-Data.db
-rw-rw-r-- 31 cassandra cassandra  6272641818 Nov 27 02:51 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-296121-Data.db
-rw-rw-r-- 31 cassandra cassandra  1814691996 Dec  4 21:50 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-320449-Data.db
-rw-rw-r-- 30 cassandra cassandra 10909061157 Dec 11 17:31 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-340318-Data.db
-rw-rw-r-- 29 cassandra cassandra   459508942 Dec 12 10:37 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-342259-Data.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 cassandra cassandra      336908 Dec 12 12:03 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-342307-Data.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 cassandra cassandra     2063935 Dec 12 12:03 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-342309-Data.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 cassandra cassandra         409 Dec 12 12:03 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-342314-Data.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 cassandra cassandra    31180007 Dec 12 12:03 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-342319-Data.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 cassandra cassandra     2398345 Dec 12 12:03 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-342322-Data.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 cassandra cassandra       21095 Dec 12 12:03 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-342331-Data.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 cassandra cassandra       81454 Dec 12 12:03 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-342335-Data.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 cassandra cassandra     1063718 Dec 12 12:03 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-342339-Data.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 cassandra cassandra      127004 Dec 12 12:03 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-342344-Data.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 cassandra cassandra      146785 Dec 12 12:03 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-342346-Data.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 cassandra cassandra      697338 Dec 12 12:03 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-342351-Data.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 cassandra cassandra     3921428 Dec 12 12:03 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-342367-Data.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 cassandra cassandra      240332 Dec 12 12:03 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-342370-Data.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 cassandra cassandra       45669 Dec 12 12:03 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-342374-Data.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 cassandra cassandra    53127549 Dec 12 12:03 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-342375-Data.db
-rw-rw-r-- 16 cassandra cassandra 12466853166 Dec 25 22:40 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-396473-Data.db
-rw-rw-r-- 12 cassandra cassandra  3903237198 Dec 29 19:42 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-408926-Data.db
-rw-rw-r--  7 cassandra cassandra  3692260987 Jan  3 08:25 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-427733-Data.db
-rw-rw-r--  4 cassandra cassandra  3971403602 Jan  6 20:50 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-437537-Data.db
-rw-rw-r--  3 cassandra cassandra  1007832224 Jan  7 15:19 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-440331-Data.db
-rw-rw-r--  2 cassandra cassandra   896132537 Jan  8 11:05 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-447740-Data.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 cassandra cassandra   963039096 Jan  9 04:59 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-449425-Data.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 cassandra cassandra   232168351 Jan  9 10:14 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-450287-Data.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 cassandra cassandra    73126319 Jan  9 11:28 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-450307-Data.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 cassandra cassandra    40921916 Jan  9 12:08 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-450336-Data.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 cassandra cassandra    60881193 Jan  9 12:23 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-450341-Data.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 cassandra cassandra        4746 Jan  9 12:23 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-450350-Data.db
-rw-rw-r--  1 cassandra cassandra        5769 Jan  9 12:23 /data/sstables/data/ks/Cf/ks-Cf-ic-450352-Data.db

295562: Estimated droppable tombstones: 0.899035828535183
296121: Estimated droppable tombstones: 0.9135080937806197
320449: Estimated droppable tombstones: 0.8916766879896414

I've checked in on this example node several times and compactionstats has not shown any other activity that would be blocking the tombstone based compaction. The TTL is in the 15-20 day range so an sstable from November should have had ample opportunities by January.