[HBASE-5867] Improve Compaction Throttle Default

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.95.0
• Assignee: Nicolas Spiegelberg
• Reporter: Nicolas Spiegelberg
• Created: 24/Apr/12 20:41
• Updated: 13/Mar/15 13:43
• Resolved: 15/May/12 17:54

Description

We recently had a production issue where our compactions fell behind because our compaction throttle was improperly tuned and accidentally upgraded all compactions to the large pool. The default from HBASE-3877 makes 1 bad assumption: the default number of flushed files in a compaction. Currently the algorithm is:

throttleSize ~= flushSize * 2

This assumes that the basic compaction utilizes 3 files and that all 3 files are compressed. In this case, "hbase.hstore.compaction.min" == 6 && the values were not very compressible. Both conditions should be taken into consideration. As a default, it is less damaging for the large thread to be slightly higher than it needs to be versus having everything accidentally promoted.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: HBASE-3743 Throttle major compaction
• relates to: HBASE-7040 Port HBASE-5867 Improve Compaction Throttle Default to 0.94