big buffer size will use more Heap memory at creation of the tables. Not sure impact on server side, but shouldn't be a big difference. I personally use 512Mb.
2012/4/28 sj.climber <sj.clim...@gmail.com>: > Can anyone comment on best practices for setting the buffer size used by > SSTableSimpleUnsortedWriter? I'm presently using 100MB, but for some of the > larger column families I'm working with, this can result in hundreds of > SSTables. After streaming to Cassandra via sstableloader, there's a fair > amount of compaction work to do. > > What are the benefits and consequences of going with a higher buffer size? > > Thanks! > > -- > View this message in context: > http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/Building-SSTables-with-SSTableSimpleUnsortedWriter-tp7507756.html > Sent from the cassandra-u...@incubator.apache.org mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. -- sent from my Nokia 3210
