Re: Cassandra Disk storage capacity

2014-04-07 Thread Jan Kesten
Hi Hari, C* will use your entire space - that is something one should monitor. Depending on your choose on compaction strategy your data_dir should not be filled up entirely - in the worst case compaction will need space as large as the sstables on disk, therefore 50% should be free space.

Re: Cassandra Disk storage capacity

2014-04-07 Thread Prem Yadav
you can specify multiple data directories in cassandra.yaml. ex: data_file_directories: - /var/lib.cass1 - /var/lib/cass2 -/some_other_mountpoint On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Jan Kesten j.kes...@enercast.de wrote: Hi Hari, C* will use your entire space - that is something one

RE: Cassandra Disk storage capacity

2014-04-07 Thread Romain HARDOUIN
Hi, See data_file_directories and commitlog_directory in the settings file cassandra.yaml. Cheers, Romain Hari Rajendhran hari.rajendh...@tcs.com a écrit sur 07/04/2014 12:56:37 : De : Hari Rajendhran hari.rajendh...@tcs.com A : user@cassandra.apache.org, Date : 07/04/2014 12:58 Objet

Re: Cassandra Disk storage capacity

2014-04-07 Thread Hari Rajendhran
...@enercast.de Date: 04/07/2014 04:41PM Subject: Re: Cassandra Disk storage capacity Hi Hari, C* will use your entire space - that is something one should monitor. Depending on your choose on compaction strategy your data_dir should not be filled up entirely - in the worst case compaction will need space

Re: Cassandra Disk storage capacity

2014-04-07 Thread Jan Kesten
Am 07.04.2014 13:24, schrieb Hari Rajendhran: 1) I am confused why cassandra uses the entire disk space ( / Directory) even when we specify /var/lib/cassandra/data as the directory in Cassandra.yaml file 2) Is it only during compaction ,cassandra will use the entire Disk space ? 3) What is the

Re: Cassandra Disk storage capacity

2014-04-07 Thread Bèrto ëd Sèra
...@enercast.de Date: 04/07/2014 04:41PM Subject: Re: Cassandra Disk storage capacity Hi Hari, C* will use your entire space - that is something one should monitor. Depending on your choose on compaction strategy your data_dir should not be filled up entirely - in the worst case compaction