Secondary index gc issue

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Hi, I am using aerospike cluster of size 7 and I am getting SocketTimeoutException from aerospike for some of the requests. I am having 2 billion records in my namespace and I am also using secondary indexes. When I am using command “stat system <namespace_name>”, I m getting sindex_gc_objects_validated as 8388370110. I looked at the logs of aerospike and secondary index gc was running too frequently in it.

Jun 20 2018 07:39:26 GMT: INFO (nsup): (thr_sindex.c:492) {kratos} sindex-gc start
Jun 20 2018 07:39:27 GMT: INFO (nsup): (thr_sindex.c:523) {kratos} sindex-gc: Processed: 8238, found:0, deleted: 0: Total time: 954 ms

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Jun 20 2018 07:39:36 GMT: INFO (nsup): (thr_sindex.c:492) {kratos} sindex-gc start
Jun 20 2018 07:39:37 GMT: INFO (nsup): (thr_sindex.c:523) {kratos} sindex-gc: Processed: 8238, found:0, deleted: 0: Total time: 1094 ms

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Secondary index gc is running too frequently in all the machines of my aerospike cluster. Is this a normal behaviour? And why is this taking too much time. For every secondary index gc its taking nearly 1 seconds. Is this somehow related to the SocketTimeoutException I am getting intermittently.

Thanks for the help in advance

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That’s an extremely fast gc compared to what I’ve seen. I do not think it is related. Instead of posting this as a secondary index gc issue, it might make sense to ask for troubleshooting assistance and provide data around versions/policies/hardware/histograms/architecture.