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Type:
Bug
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Resolution: Fixed
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Priority:
Major - P3
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Affects Version/s: None
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Component/s: Compaction
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3
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c(3x10^8)-StorEng - 2023-11-14
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v7.0, v6.0, v5.0
When WT_SESSION::compact() runs with verbose=[compact_progress:1], it tries to generate a progress message roughly every 20 seconds. But in some circumstances it can go a long time without reporting progress and then output multiple progress messages per second.
Here is example output from MongoDB attempting to compact a 160GB index table. (I've condensed the MongoDB log messages to only include the timestamp and WT log message.)
2022-07-02T00:01:42.059+00:00: ============ testing for compaction 2022-07-02T00:01:42.059+00:00: file size 160587MB (168388661248) with 24% space available 39573MB (41495416832) 2022-07-02T00:01:43.605+00:00: 0%: 1292MB, (free: 1355661312B, 3%), (used: 14765MB, 15483204813B, 12%) 2022-07-02T00:01:43.605+00:00: 10%: 1755MB, (free: 1841027584B, 4%), (used: 14303MB, 14997838541B, 11%) 2022-07-02T00:01:43.605+00:00: 20%: 2583MB, (free: 2708723200B, 6%), (used: 13475MB, 14130142925B, 11%) 2022-07-02T00:01:43.605+00:00: 30%: 2654MB, (free: 2783047680B, 6%), (used: 13404MB, 14055818445B, 11%) 2022-07-02T00:01:43.605+00:00: 40%: 2193MB, (free: 2299588608B, 5%), (used: 13865MB, 14539277517B, 11%) 2022-07-02T00:01:43.605+00:00: 50%: 2986MB, (free: 3132018688B, 7%), (used: 13071MB, 13706847437B, 10%) 2022-07-02T00:01:43.605+00:00: 60%: 4219MB, (free: 4424004096B, 10%), (used: 11839MB, 12414862029B, 9%) 2022-07-02T00:01:43.605+00:00: 70%: 6071MB, (free: 6366371328B, 15%), (used: 9987MB, 10472494797B, 8%) 2022-07-02T00:01:43.605+00:00: 80%: 6576MB, (free: 6896386048B, 16%), (used: 9481MB, 9942480077B, 7%) 2022-07-02T00:01:43.605+00:00: 90%: 9239MB, (free: 9688588288B, 23%), (used: 6819MB, 7150277837B, 5%) 2022-07-02T00:01:43.738+00:00: index-15--2947465233479438924.wt: total reviewed 0 pages, total skipped 0 pages, total wrote 0 pages 2022-07-02T00:01:43.739+00:00: index-15--2947465233479438924.wt: 23756MB (24910442496) available space in the first 80% of the file 2022-07-02T00:01:43.739+00:00: index-15--2947465233479438924.wt: 30333MB (31806828544) available space in the first 90% of the file 2022-07-02T00:01:43.739+00:00: index-15--2947465233479438924.wt: require 10% or 16058MB (16838866124) in the first 90% of the file to perform compaction, compaction proceeding 2022-07-02T00:01:44.173+00:00: compacting index-15--2947465233479438924.wt for 574 seconds; reviewed 0 pages, skipped 0 pages, rewritten 0pages 2022-07-02T00:01:44.551+00:00: compacting index-15--2947465233479438924.wt for 574 seconds; reviewed 1 pages, skipped 1 pages, rewritten 0pages 2022-07-02T00:01:44.963+00:00: compacting index-15--2947465233479438924.wt for 575 seconds; reviewed 1 pages, skipped 1 pages, rewritten 0pages 2022-07-02T00:01:45.445+00:00: compacting index-15--2947465233479438924.wt for 575 seconds; reviewed 2 pages, skipped 2 pages, rewritten 0pages 2022-07-02T00:01:45.861+00:00: compacting index-15--2947465233479438924.wt for 576 seconds; reviewed 3 pages, skipped 3 pages, rewritten 0pages 2022-07-02T00:01:46.266+00:00: compacting index-15--2947465233479438924.wt for 576 seconds; reviewed 6 pages, skipped 6 pages, rewritten 0pages 2022-07-02T00:01:46.635+00:00: compacting index-15--2947465233479438924.wt for 577 seconds; reviewed 6 pages, skipped 6 pages, rewritten 0pages 2022-07-02T00:01:46.995+00:00: compacting index-15--2947465233479438924.wt for 577 seconds; reviewed 8 pages, skipped 8 pages, rewritten 0pages 2022-07-02T00:01:47.365+00:00: compacting index-15--2947465233479438924.wt for 577 seconds; reviewed 9 pages, skipped 9 pages, rewritten 0pages
After deciding to proceed with the compact, we almost immediately start outputting multiple progress messages in rapid succession.
These messages are generated by __wt_block_compact_progress(). The problem is that way the function is written if it falls behind, it will print messages every time it is called until it "catches up".
__wt_epoch(session, &cur_time); /* Log one progress message every twenty seconds. */ time_diff = WT_TIMEDIFF_SEC(cur_time, session->compact->begin); if (time_diff / WT_PROGRESS_MSG_PERIOD > *msg_countp) { ++*msg_countp; __wt_verbose_debug(session, WT_VERB_COMPACT_PROGRESS, " compacting %s for %" PRIu64 " seconds; reviewed %" PRIu64 " pages, skipped %" PRIu64 " pages, rewritten %" PRIu64 "pages", block->name, time_diff, block->compact_pages_reviewed, block->compact_pages_skipped, block->compact_pages_rewritten); }
The problem in the example cited above is that when we first call __wt_block_compact_progress() over 500 seconds have already elapsed (for reasons I don't understand), but msg_countp is apparently very small, so on every call we print a message.
