Re: Cassandra hardware setup

2009-08-26 Thread Jonathan Ellis
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Scott Chaconscha...@gmail.com wrote: We're playing with Cassandra and would like to get a test cluster setup for evaluation.  I've been playing with it on my laptop and EC2, which are the resources easily available to me, but not that close to what I would be

Re: Server cannot startup after shutdown

2009-08-26 Thread Jonathan Ellis
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Jonathan Ellisjbel...@gmail.com wrote: The OOM puzzles me a little; I'm not sure how it could be unable to replay a mutation that it was able to write to the commitlog in the first place. Ah, I think I know: if a compaction starts during recovery, that could

Re: Server cannot startup after shutdown

2009-08-26 Thread Jonathan Ellis
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Brian Frank Coopercoop...@yahoo-inc.com wrote: Is the commitlog small enough that you can gzip it and attach to JIRA (10 MB limit)? /var/cassandra/commitlog has 215 files totaling about 28 GB. Most are 134 MB, the last one is 6MB. Which one would be useful

Re: Newbe´s question

2009-08-26 Thread Ian Holsman
would it be worthwhile to start including these clients in the core codebase? in some kind of 'client' or 'contrib' directory? maybe even mentioning the 'popular' clients that people use in the readme (with links to them) would be good. On Aug 27, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Sal Fuentes wrote:

Re: Newbe´s question

2009-08-26 Thread Jonathan Ellis
I thought about that, but I really don't want Cassandra committers to have to be in the business of updating them all when we make changes, and having them in the repo creates that expectation even in contrib. On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Ian Holsmani...@holsman.net wrote: would it be

Re: Newbe´s question

2009-08-26 Thread Eric Evans
On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 09:57 +1000, Ian Holsman wrote: would it be worthwhile to start including these clients in the core codebase? in some kind of 'client' or 'contrib' directory? IMO, it would be better for the clients and those working on them to continue managing them as separate projects

Re: Newbe´s question

2009-08-26 Thread Ian Holsman
isn't there a way to use svn:external or svn:link to pull them in from their own repos? (not sure how legal it would be). On Aug 27, 2009, at 10:03 AM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: I thought about that, but I really don't want Cassandra committers to have to be in the business of updating them all

Re: Newbe´s question

2009-08-26 Thread Evan Weaver
Clients section in the README.txt seems best to me. Evan On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Ian Holsmani...@holsman.net wrote: isn't there a way to use svn:external or svn:link to pull them in from their own repos? (not sure how legal it would be). On Aug 27, 2009, at 10:03 AM, Jonathan Ellis

Re: Newbe´s question

2009-08-26 Thread Jonathan Ellis
the problem is README changes far too infrequently from the pov of someone who just uses official releases. we have a list here: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ClientExamples which I have deliberately left incomplete (only projects with commits in the last month or so, since nothing else has a

Re: Newbe´s question

2009-08-26 Thread Jonathan Ellis
Off the top of my head, I can't think of any that actually use svn so it's probably a moot point anyway. Subversion has practically zero mindshare now in the cutting edge crowd (which most of cassandra's users come from, unsurprisingly :). -Jonathan On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Ian

Re: Newbe´s question

2009-08-26 Thread Chris Goffinet
Don't know what you're talking about, I am still rolling with CVS. -Chris On Aug 26, 2009, at 5:31 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: Off the top of my head, I can't think of any that actually use svn so it's probably a moot point anyway. Subversion has practically zero mindshare now in the cutting