The chunk size used in sstable compression can be set when creating a
table, using the "chunk_length_in_kb" parameter. It can be any power-of-two
multiple of 1KB. Very large compression chunks are not useful - they
offer diminishing returns on compression ratio, and require very large
memory buffers and reading a very large amount of disk data just to
read a small row. In fact, small chunks are recommended - Scylla
defaults to 4 KB chunks, and Cassandra lowered their default from 64 KB
(in Cassandra 3) to 16 KB (in Cassandra 4).
Therefore, allowing arbitrarily large chunk sizes is just asking for
trouble. Today, a user can ask for a 1 GB chunk size, and crash or hang
Scylla when it runs out of memory. So in this patch we add a hard limit
of 128 KB for the chunk size - anything larger is refused.
Fixes#9933
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>
Closes#14267
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