RE: Effective allocation of multiple disks

2010-03-10 Thread Stu Hood
You can list multiple DataFileDirectories, and Cassandra will scatter files across all of them. Use 1 disk for the commitlog, and 3 disks for data directories. See http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/CassandraHardware#Disk Thanks, Stu -Original Message- From: Eric Rosenberry

RE: CassandraHardware link on the wiki FrontPage

2010-03-10 Thread Stu Hood
Anyone can edit any page once they have an account: click the Login link at the top right next to the search box to create an account. Thanks, Stu -Original Message- From: Eric Rosenberry e...@rosenberry.org Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 2:52am To: cassandra-user@incubator.apache.org

Re: Effective allocation of multiple disks

2010-03-10 Thread Stu Hood
all the data ends up on one disk. If you need the additional io, you will want raid0. But simply listing multiple DataFileDirectories will not work. -Anthony On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 02:08:13AM -0600, Stu Hood wrote: You can list multiple DataFileDirectories, and Cassandra will scatter files

Re: Hackathon?!?

2010-03-09 Thread Stu Hood
Definitely on board! -Original Message- From: Dan Di Spaltro dan.dispal...@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 8:05pm To: cassandra-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Hackathon?!? Alright guys, we have settled on a date for the Cassandra meetup on... April 15th, better known as,

RE: Latest check-in to trunk/ is broken

2010-03-08 Thread Stu Hood
Run `ant clean` before building. A few files moved around. -Original Message- From: Cool BSD c...@coolbsd.com Sent: Monday, March 8, 2010 5:18pm To: cassandra-user cassandra-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Latest check-in to trunk/ is broken version info: $ svn info Path: . URL:

Re: Dynamically Switching from Ordered Partitioner to Random?

2010-03-05 Thread Stu Hood
But rather than switching, you should definitely try the 'loadbalance' approach first, and see whether OrderPP works out for you. -Original Message- From: Chris Goffinet goffi...@digg.com Sent: Friday, March 5, 2010 1:43pm To: cassandra-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Dynamically

Re: Connect during bootstrapping?

2010-03-02 Thread Stu Hood
You are probably in the portion of bootstrap where data to be transferred is split out to disk, which can take a while: see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-579 Look for a 'streaming' subdirectory in your data directories to confirm. -Original Message- From: Brian Frank

Re: Is Cassandra a document based DB?

2010-03-01 Thread Stu Hood
In HBase you have table:row:family:key:val:version, which some people might consider richer Cassandra is actually table:family:row:key:val[:subval], where subvals are the columns stored in a supercolumn (which can be easily arranged by timestamp to give the versioned approach). -Original

Re: StackOverflowError on high load

2010-02-21 Thread Stu Hood
Ran, There are bounds to how large your data directory will grow, relative to the actual data. Please read up on compaction: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/MemtableSSTable , and if you have a significant number of deletes occuring, also read

Re: Cassandra benchmark shows OK throughput but high read latency ( 100ms)?

2010-02-16 Thread Stu Hood
After I ran nodeprobe compact on node B its read latency went up to 150ms. The compaction process can take a while to finish... in 0.5 you need to watch the logs to figure out when it has actually finished, and then you should start seeing the improvement in read latency. Is there any way to

Re: TimeOutExceptions and Cluster Performance

2010-02-13 Thread Stu Hood
The combination of 'too many open files' and lots of memtable flushes could mean you have tons and tons of sstables on disk. This can make reads especially slow. If you are seeing the timeouts on reads a lot more often than on writes, then this explanation might make sense, and you should

Re: OOM Exception

2009-12-13 Thread Stu Hood
PS: If this turns out to actually be the problem, I'll open a ticket for it. Thanks, Stu -Original Message- From: Stu Hood stuart.h...@rackspace.com Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 12:28pm To: cassandra-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: OOM Exception With 248G per box, you probably

Re: quorum / hinted handoff

2009-11-20 Thread Stu Hood
You need a quorum relative to your replication factor. You mentioned in the first e-mail that you have RF=2, so you need a quorum of 2. If you use RF=3, then you need a quorum of 2 as well. -Original Message- From: B. Todd Burruss bburr...@real.com Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 4:14pm

Re: bandwidth limiting Cassandra's replication and access control

2009-11-11 Thread Stu Hood
Hey Ted, Would you mind creating a ticket for this issue in JIRA? A lot of discussion has gone on, and a place to collect the design and feedback would be a good start. Thanks, Stu -Original Message- From: Ted Zlatanov t...@lifelogs.com Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 3:28pm To: