Cassandra 1.2.19 and Java 8

2016-01-12 Thread Tim Heckman
ience with Cassandra 1.2 and Java 8 in production. Any known issues or gotchas? Cheers! -Tim -- Tim Heckman Operations Engineer PagerDuty, Inc.

"Failed to enable shuffling" error

2014-09-08 Thread Tim Heckman
Hello, I'm looking to convert our recently upgraded Cassandra cluster from a single token per node to using vnodes. We've determined that based on our data consistency and usage patterns that shuffling will be the best way to convert our live cluster. However, when following the instructions for

Re: "Failed to enable shuffling" error

2014-09-08 Thread Tim Heckman
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Robert Coli wrote: > On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Tim Heckman wrote: >> >> I'm looking to convert our recently upgraded Cassandra cluster from a >> single token per node to using vnodes. We've determined that based on &g

Re: "Failed to enable shuffling" error

2014-09-08 Thread Tim Heckman
iors in the 2.x branch. If we do move to the 2.x version that's something we'll be keeping in mind. Cheers! -Tim > On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Robert Coli wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Tim Heckman wrote: >>> >>> We're still at the explorat

Reading SSTables Potential File Descriptor Leak 1.2.18

2014-09-23 Thread Tim Heckman
Hello, I ran in to a problem today where Cassandra 1.2.18 exhausted its number of permitted open file descriptors (65,535). This node has 256 tokens (vnodes) and runs in a test environment with relatively little traffic/data. As best I could tell, the majority of the file descriptors open were fo

Repair/Compaction Completion Confirmation

2014-10-27 Thread Tim Heckman
Hello, I am looking to change how we trigger maintenance operations in our C* clusters. The end goal is to schedule and run the jobs using a system that is backed by Serf to handle the event propagation. I know that when issuing some operations via nodetool, the command blocks until the operation

Re: Repair/Compaction Completion Confirmation

2014-10-27 Thread Tim Heckman
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Robert Coli wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Tim Heckman wrote: > >> I know that when issuing some operations via nodetool, the command blocks >> until the operation is finished. However, is there a way to reliably >> dete

Re: Cassandra DC2 nodes down after increasing write requests on DC1 nodes

2014-11-16 Thread Tim Heckman
Hello Gabriel, On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Gabriel Menegatti wrote: > I said that load was not a big deal, because ops center shows this loads as > green, not as yellow or red at all. > > Also, our servers have many processors/threads, so I *think* this load is > not problematic. I've seen

Re: full gc too often

2014-12-04 Thread Tim Heckman
On Dec 4, 2014 8:14 PM, "Philo Yang" wrote: > > Hi,all > > I have a cluster on C* 2.1.1 and jdk 1.7_u51. I have a trouble with full gc that sometime there may be one or two nodes full gc more than one time per minute and over 10 seconds each time, then the node will be unreachable and the latency

Re: nodetool repair exception

2014-12-06 Thread Tim Heckman
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Eric Stevens wrote: > The official recommendation is 100k: > http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/install/installRecommendSettings.html > > I wonder if there's an advantage to this over unlimited if you're running > servers which are dedicat

Re: Does nodetool repair stop the node to answer requests ?

2015-01-22 Thread Tim Heckman
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Jan wrote: > Running a 'nodetool repair' will 'not' bring the node down. It's not something that happens during normal operation. If something goes sideways, and the resource usage climbs, a repair can definitely cripple a node. > Your question: > does a node

Re: Ghost compaction process

2015-06-08 Thread Tim Heckman
Does `nodetool comactionstats` show nothing running as well? Also, for posterity what are some details of the setup (C* version, etc.)? -Tim -- Tim Heckman Operations Engineer PagerDuty, Inc. On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Arturas Raizys wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having prob