On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Germán Kondolf <german.kond...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks Jonathan for the feedback.
>
> By flush/schema migration you mean the SSTables replace lock? I've put
> that lock just to be sure, if it's fine by you I'll remove it.
> I'll clean up the code according to the code-style article, add the
> parameter to the configuration using a default of "1" and I'll send it
> again.
>
> Why do you think is only worth it on SSDs?
>

Because even a single compaction causes a ton of i/o contention.  99% of the
time your concern is how to make compaction use _less_ resources, not more.
:)

How do I get to commit this patch?
>

Attach it to a ticket on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA.

-- 
Jonathan Ellis
Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support
http://riptano.com

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