Re: Cassandra JVM heap sizes on EC2

2013-08-24 Thread Janne Jalkanen
We've been trying to keep the heap as small as possible; the disk access penalty on EC2 is big enough - even on instance store - that you want to give as much memory to disk caches as you can. Of course, then you will need to keep extra vigilant on your garbage collection and tune various

Re: Commitlog files not getting deleted

2013-08-24 Thread Tupshin Harper
There is potentially a DSE specific issue that you are running into and you should probably contact Datastax support to confirm. Also, keep in mind that Cassandra does recycle it's commitlog files instead of deleting and recreating them, so you shouldn't expect them to disappear even when the node

CQLsh assume command

2013-08-24 Thread Vivek Mishra
Hi, i am trying to get CQL3 ASSUME command, as it works with Cassandra-cli. In my example, i have create a table as : create table default(id blob PRIMARY KEY); Then after connecting with CQLsh(version 3), i did execute: assume default(id) values are text; and then tried to insert a simple