Re: High IO Util using TimeWindowCompaction

2017-11-15 Thread Alexander Dejanovski
Hi Kurt, it seems highly unlikely that TWCS is responsible for your problems since you're throttling compaction way below what i3 instances can provide. For such instances, we would advise to use 8 concurrent compactors with high compaction throughput (>200MB/s, if not unthrottled). We've had rep

High IO Util using TimeWindowCompaction

2017-11-13 Thread Kurtis Norwood
I've been testing out cassandra 3.11 (currently using 3.7) and have been observing really high io util occasionally that sometimes results in temporary flatlining at 100% io util for an extended period. I think my use case is pretty simple and currently only testing part of it on this new version s