Re: MBean cassandra.db.CompactionManager TotalBytesCompacted counts backwards

2012-10-08 Thread Bryan Talbot
I'm attempting to plot how busy the node is doing compactions but there seems to only be a few metrics reported that might be suitable: CompletedTasks, PendingTasks, TotalBytesCompacted, TotalCompactionsCompleted. It's not clear to me what the difference between CompletedTasks and

Re: MBean cassandra.db.CompactionManager TotalBytesCompacted counts backwards

2012-10-07 Thread Edward Capriolo
I have not looked at this JMX object in a while, however the compaction manager can support multiple threads. Also it moves from 0-filesize each time it has to compact a set of files. That is more useful for showing current progress rather then lifetime history. On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 7:27 PM,

MBean cassandra.db.CompactionManager TotalBytesCompacted counts backwards

2012-10-05 Thread Bryan Talbot
I've recently added compaction rate (in bytes / second) to my monitors for cassandra and am seeing some odd values. I wasn't expecting the values for TotalBytesCompacted to sometimes decrease from one reading to the next. It seems that the value should be monotonically increasing while a server