This is now my fourth attempt to get the message through. Apologies if you see multiple copies.
I've tried to give as much relevant data as I can think of, but please let me know if you
need any other info. I spent the day getting jmxtrans to talk to statsd with the cassandra
JMX data, so I can provide graphs of just about anything you want. I can also re-run the
tests to replicate the problem if need be. As always, thanks for taking a look!
I have a 4 host test cluster that I'm writing counters into running 0.8.1, and I'm writing
to it with hector with CL.ONE or CL.QUORUM (test was run with each and both gave the same
results). Partitioner is the RandomPartitioner, and RF=3. nodetool ring shows that actual
data is well balanced:
Address DC Rack Status State Load Owns Token
127605887595351923798765477786913079296
10.0.0.57 datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 1.59 GB 25.00% 0
10.0.0.56 datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 1.39 GB 25.00% 42535295865117307932921825928971026432
10.0.0.55 datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 1.24 GB 25.00% 85070591730234615865843651857942052864
10.0.0.54 datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 1.34 GB 25.00% 127605887595351923798765477786913079296
I also tested against a 1-box test cluster with RF=1.
Both show the same results: high performance for a while, and then ReplicateOnWrite backs
way up (I've seen it as high as a million), the cassandra process becomes unresponsive, and
the hector client starts throwing exceptions. High performance in this case equates to about
5-20k inserts/sec on both the 4-box and 1-box cluster (I'm inserting one long row at a time,
so the performance is bounded by the one box owning the row). The cassandra process never
seems to recover, even if left for 24 hours. It's still chewing through those ReplicateOnWrite
pending tasks.
GC doesn't seem to be a factor. Logs show GCs completing in < 1s on all 4 boxes in the
test cluster, as well as on the 1 standalone server.
I'm also seeing highly erratic performance from the cluster in general: inserts/sec usually
start at around 3k, but then maybe creep up towards 6k, then drop back down to below 1k for
an extended period of time, then maybe 1% of the time they'll spike up to 8k or even 15k,
but that doesn't last more than 30 seconds.
Here's the tpstats output from all 4 boxes:
Slowest/most problematic/highest cpu usage one:
This tpstats output is also representative of the one box cluster about 20 minutes into my
insert run.
4 $ ./nodetool -h localhost tpstats
Pool Name Active Pending Completed
ReadStage 0 0 0
RequestResponseStage 0 0 59095840
MutationStage 0 0 31182942
ReadRepairStage 0 0 0
ReplicateOnWriteStage 32 928042 28246716
GossipStage 1 1 449464
AntiEntropyStage 0 0 0
MigrationStage 0 0 4
MemtablePostFlusher 0 0 445
StreamStage 0 0 0
FlushWriter 0 0 445
FILEUTILS-DELETE-POOL 0 0 38
MiscStage 0 0 0
FlushSorter 0 0 0
InternalResponseStage 0 0 4
HintedHandoff 0 0 0
Second highest cpu usage one:
3 $ ./nodetool -h localhost tpstats
Pool Name Active Pending Completed
ReadStage 0 0 0
RequestResponseStage 0 0 27413910
MutationStage 0 0 27523094
ReadRepairStage 0 0 0
ReplicateOnWriteStage 0 0 11111971
GossipStage 0 0 335422
AntiEntropyStage 0 0 0
MigrationStage 0 0 4
MemtablePostFlusher 0 0 66
StreamStage 0 0 0
FlushWriter 0 0 66
FILEUTILS-DELETE-POOL 0 0 31
MiscStage 0 0 0
FlushSorter 0 0 0
InternalResponseStage 0 0 4
HintedHandoff 0 0 0
The other 2 that see minimal cpu usage:
2 $ ./nodetool -h localhost tpstats
Pool Name Active Pending Completed
ReadStage 0 0 0
RequestResponseStage 0 0 9213999
MutationStage 0 0 33233114
ReadRepairStage 0 0 0
ReplicateOnWriteStage 0 0 0
GossipStage 0 0 336016
AntiEntropyStage 0 0 0
MigrationStage 0 0 4
MemtablePostFlusher 0 0 77
StreamStage 0 0 0
FlushWriter 0 0 77
FILEUTILS-DELETE-POOL 0 0 40
MiscStage 0 0 0
FlushSorter 0 0 0
InternalResponseStage 0 0 4
HintedHandoff 0 0 0
1 $ ./nodetool -h localhost tpstats
Pool Name Active Pending Completed
ReadStage 0 0 0
RequestResponseStage 0 0 13796875
MutationStage 0 0 36116662
ReadRepairStage 0 0 0
ReplicateOnWriteStage 0 0 0
GossipStage 0 0 336496
AntiEntropyStage 0 0 0
MigrationStage 0 0 4
MemtablePostFlusher 0 0 91
StreamStage 0 0 0
FlushWriter 0 0 91
FILEUTILS-DELETE-POOL 0 0 43
MiscStage 0 0 0
FlushSorter 0 0 0
InternalResponseStage 0 0 4
HintedHandoff 0 0 0
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