doris-debug-compaction

A troubleshooting guide for Apache Doris storage errors caused by too many data versions and delayed compaction. Compaction merges smaller storage files and versions so tablets—Doris data partitions—remain manageable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Investigating Doris error -235, version-count growth, compaction scores, disk pressure, and tablet hotspots. It includes checks for logs, backend metrics, and relevant version-limit settings.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish excessive ingest frequency, slow disks, configuration limits, and a single overloaded tablet. This avoids treating a raised version limit as the complete fix when compaction is falling behind.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/apache/doris-skills/compaction
Any agent
npx skills add apache/doris-skills --skill compaction
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/apache/doris-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 624 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00053 $0.00624
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00312
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00062

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9c71413286ad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

doris-debug-compaction scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/doris-debug/compaction/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Compaction / Versions

Code

be/src/storage/rowset_builder.cpp:

  • version_count > max_version_configStatus::Error<TOO_MANY_VERSION>(...)
  • Suggests reduce load frequency or raise max_tablet_version_num / time_series_max_tablet_version_num in be.conf
  • Near limit triggers cumulative compaction submit

Defaults (config.cpp): max_tablet_version_num=2000, time_series_max_tablet_version_num=20000.

Causes

ID Cause Evidence Fix direction
A Ingest rate > compaction throughput version_count rising; compaction score growing Reduce ingest frequency or increase compaction threads
B Disk IO bottleneck iostat shows disk util > 90% Move WAL to separate disk; add compaction disks
C max_tablet_version_num too low for workload -235 on normal ingest rates Raise limit (temporary), then fix root cause
D Single-tablet hotspot One tablet has 10× versions of peers Partition / bucket key skew

Actions

  1. Confirm with ./scripts/doris-debug log-grep be/log --pack versions
  2. Check compaction throughput: ./scripts/doris-debug be-metrics --be http://$BE:8040 --grep compaction
  3. Check disk IO: iostat -x 1
  4. Slow ingest / enlarge group commit batches
  5. Raising max_tablet_version_num is a temporary valve — fix ingest vs compaction balance
./scripts/doris-debug be-metrics --be http://$BE:8040 --grep compaction

Compaction knobs

# be.conf
max_tablet_version_num = 2000               # hard cap, raise only as stopgap
time_series_max_tablet_version_num = 20000   # separate cap for time-series tables
max_cumulative_compaction_threads = -1       # -1 = auto based on CPU cores
compaction_task_num_per_disk = 4             # per-disk concurrent compaction tasks
compaction_tablet_size_threshold = 107374182400  # 100GB — above this, skip base compaction

Source

  • be/src/storage/rowset_builder.cpp-235 error
  • be/src/common/config.cpp — all compaction config defaults
  • be/src/olap/cumulative_compaction_policy.cpp — score calculation

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 61 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 9c71413286ad

Subscribe to this mod's changes

doris-debug-compaction is a skill published in the GitHub repository apache/doris-skills (37 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 624 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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