On Dec 7, 2009, at 5:59 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote:

> yes and no -- that's about 4200/s, which is typical for only a single

When writing, yes. But I would expect reading to be much faster (?). 
Re-executing the read test doesn't speed up things either (I/O caches).

> thread but 1/3 to 1/5 of what you'd expect it to max out (on our
> quad-core test boxes) when you add client threads
> 
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Timo Nentwig <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> I just downloaded, installed, start cassandra and ran very simple 
>> "benchmark": write n times something with 
>> key==value==testInsertAndGetAndRemove_n (one thread).
>> 
>> For n==10 million on a 7200rpm HDD (4G RAM - there should have be 
>> "reasonably" free mem however I didn't check) this took 40min (insert()ing 
>> one after another). Reading them one by one in sequence delivers about 
>> 100/s, reading in 1.000er batches (i.e. multigetColumn()) takes 5-10s 
>> (depending on n, the higher the slower).
>> 
>> Are this typical numbers for cassandra (0.5)? I actually took the 
>> configuration as it was.

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