pageserver: reduce default compaction_upper_limit
to 20
#10889
Merged
+5
−4
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Problem
We've seen the previous default of 50 cause OOMs. Compacting many L0 layers at once now has limited benefit, since the cost is mostly linear anyway. This is already being reduced to 20 in production settings.
Summary of changes
Reduce
DEFAULT_COMPACTION_UPPER_LIMIT
to 20.Once released, let's remove the config overrides.