Re: Understand how to provision nodes and use cassandra in the production

2010-01-30 Thread Jonathan Ellis
the thing that will help most in 0.5 is to increase your KeysCachedFraction to 0.2 or even more, depending on your workload. On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 5:23 AM, Suhail Doshi digitalwarf...@gmail.com wrote: An issue I've been seeing is it's really hard to scale Cassandra with reads. I've run top,

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2010-01-30 Thread Apache Hudson Server
See http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Cassandra/339/changes Changes: [jbellis] imrove Streaming commenting. patch by jbellis [jbellis] merge from 0.5 [eevans] make builds smarter - do not needlesssly regenerate avro code on each run - fix javac src path for thrift generated code

Re: Understand how to provision nodes and use cassandra in the production

2010-01-30 Thread Suhail Doshi
According jconsole on the main table I am having issues with: Capacity: 1164790 HitRate: .54 Size: 99753 Right now my KeysCachedFraction is 0.2. The current memory allocated is 3G. What's a suggested KeysCachedFraction value? Suhail On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Jonathan Ellis

Re: Understand how to provision nodes and use cassandra in the production

2010-01-30 Thread Jonathan Ellis
you want to get hitrate to 0.9 or so, i.e. 90% of index lookups don't have to hit disk. play with KCF and see what happens. and use jconsole to see how close you are getting to your 3GB limit (hit the GC button to see how much memory is really being used, and then add 25% or so for a reasonable

Re: Understand how to provision nodes and use cassandra in the production

2010-01-30 Thread Suhail Doshi
Haven't seen much success between 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Jonathan Ellis jbel...@gmail.com wrote: you want to get hitrate to 0.9 or so, i.e. 90% of index lookups don't have to hit disk. play with KCF and see what happens. and use jconsole to see how close you are