Re: cassandra freezes

2010-02-20 Thread Simon Smith
idea to proactively cause GCing to happen? (I.e. take a node out of the haproxy LB pool, somehow cause it to gc, and then put the node back in... repeat at intervals for each node?) Simon Smith

Re: Cassandra with static IP address on EC2 instance: org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException

2009-12-08 Thread Simon Smith
Do you have your Amazon security policy set to allow that port? If you were accessing internally before, the internal security policy may have allowed that traffic, but the default external one doesn't (at least that is how it worked for my account). On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Sunil Khedar

Re: Cassandra users survey

2009-11-20 Thread Simon Smith
The company I'm with is still small and in the early stages, but we're planning on using Cassandra for user profile information (in development right now), and possibly other uses later on. We evaluated CouchDB and Voldermort, and both of those were great as well - for CouchDB, I really liked

Re: Cassandra backup and restore procedures

2009-11-18 Thread Simon Smith
I'm sorry if this was covered before, but if you lose a node and cannot bring it (or a replacement) back with the same IP address or DNS name, is your only option to restart the entire cluster? E.g. if I have nodes 1, 2, and 3 with replication factor 3, and then I lose node 3, is it possible to

Re: Thrift Perl API Timeout Issues

2009-10-16 Thread Simon Smith
I don't have an opinion on the default timeout. But in my experience with other applications, you want to consciously make a choice about what your timeout, based on your architecture and performance requirements. You're much better off explicitly setting a timeout that will cause your

Re: get_key_range (CASSANDRA-169)

2009-09-09 Thread Simon Smith
-gathering step should be for me? Thank you, Simon Smith Arcode Corporation