StackOverflowError in MetricAgeOffIterator

[jdwoody]

If data is present/ingested that should be aged off, you can get a SOE during compaction or at scan time due to the recursive call chain in the MetricAgeOffIterator:
seekPastAgedOffMetricData(line 161)
seekIfNecessary(line 87)
seek(line 180)

[dlmarion]

This occurred due to an error on the client where it was sending data at second precision instead of millisecond precision thus creating very old data. I wonder if the solution here is to drop data if it's date/time is before the configured age-off setting for the metric.

[Montana]

Maybe in this case, an interval drop rule would be more successful via it discretizes the time interval of the segment at a specific granularity to generate a table of set time points.