[CASSANDRA-9592] `Periodically attempt to submit background compaction tasks

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.7
• Assignee: Benedict Elliott Smith
• Reporter: Benedict Elliott Smith

Authors

Benedict Elliott Smith

Reviewers

Yuki Morishita

• Created: 12/Jun/15 17:52
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:31
• Resolved: 17/Jun/15 08:54

Description

There's more race conditions affecting compaction task submission than CASSANDRA-7745, so to prevent some of these problems stalling compactions, I propose simply submitting background compactions once every minute, if possible. This will typically be a no-op, but there's no harm in that, since it's very cheap to do.