diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/ozone-manager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/om/service/CompactDBUtil.java b/hadoop-ozone/ozone-manager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/om/service/CompactDBUtil.java
index d21a655cf9b..3b15a6507ea 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/ozone-manager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/om/service/CompactDBUtil.java
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/ozone-manager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/om/service/CompactDBUtil.java
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ public static void compactTable(OMMetadataManager omMetadataManager, String tabl
       options.setBottommostLevelCompaction(compactionType);
       LOG.info("Compacting column family: {} with {} bottommost level compaction",
           tableName, options.bottommostLevelCompaction());
-      options.setExclusiveManualCompaction(true);
+      // Note that setExclusiveManualCompaction should not be set to true
+      // since this can cause write stall in high write throughput cluster. See HDDS-15990.
       RocksDatabase rocksDatabase =
           ((RDBStore) omMetadataManager.getStore()).getDb();