Re: 3.0 and the Cassandra release process

2015-03-24 Thread Chris Burroughs
Broadly as a contributor and operator I like the idea of more frequent releases off of an always stable master. First customer ship quality all the time [1]! I'm a little concerned that the specific tick-tock proposal could devolve into a 'devodd' style where the 'feature release' becomes a

Re: Proposed changes to C* Release Schedule

2014-06-24 Thread Chris Burroughs
On 06/17/2014 01:16 PM, Michael Kjellman wrote: That being said I don’t think i’m alone by identifying the problem. FWIW I'm not doing anything wildly unusual and I've been on a fork for as long as I've been on 1.2 (and various times before). Almost everyone being on 1.2 with 3 other

Re: Proposal: freeze Thrift starting with 2.1.0

2014-03-26 Thread Chris Burroughs
FWIW even for new development we have found thrift preferable to CQL. Others have have a different experience and that's cool. It's certinaly made it less intimidating to new users when explaining Cassandra. I'm very concerned at the sentiments in this thread about not testing or upgrading

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Cassandra 1.2.13

2013-12-12 Thread Chris Burroughs
+1, we have rolled out most of the patches this week. On 12/11/2013 10:24 AM, Sylvain Lebresne wrote: Bugs fixed, good. I propose the following artifacts for release as 1.2.13. sha1: 6ab82a46984ccbf5eed4244ceef6fa30d781eebb Git:

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Cassandra 1.2.12

2013-11-20 Thread Chris Burroughs
+1 I've been running several of the 1.2.12 patches in production for a while now. On 11/20/2013 04:37 AM, Sylvain Lebresne wrote: A fair number of fixes went in since 1.2.11, I propose the following artifacts for release as 1.2.12. sha1: 026865f2a36d9685057c407e3fa528c101ab46b7 Git:

Re: I don't understand shuffle progress

2013-09-18 Thread Chris Burroughs
On 09/17/2013 09:41 PM, Paulo Motta wrote: So you're saying the only feasible way of enabling VNodes on an upgraded C* 1.2 is by doing fork writes to a brand new cluster + bulk load of sstables from the old cluster? Or is it possible to succeed on shuffling, even if that means waiting some weeks

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Cassandra 1.2.9

2013-08-27 Thread Chris Burroughs
Following up on a discussion in IRC. A caveat on the (not new, but not fixed) problems with replace_{node,token} would likely be appreciated by users. On 08/26/2013 02:53 PM, Sylvain Lebresne wrote: The changelog is getting big, I propose the following artifacts for release as 1.2.9. sha1:

Re: JNA to activate cassandra row cache

2013-08-21 Thread Chris Burroughs
On 08/19/2013 02:49 PM, CROCKETT, LEONARD P wrote: Must Cassandra 1.2.5 run as root for JNA jar to effectively disable swapping? It doesn't globally disable swap (which would require root), but don't swap this block of memory.

BRAF / FileChannel / sun.nio.ch.Util

2011-06-22 Thread Chris Burroughs
CASSANDRA-2654 worked around a painful jdk bug [1]. In the course of trying to audit DirectByteBuffer use I've been trying to wrap my head around the interaction of BufferedRandomAccessFile and FileChannel. I admit that I'm as confused by nio as ever, but FileChannelImpl does appear to use

General usefulness of write only mode

2011-04-23 Thread Chris Burroughs
I wanted to see if this was generally useful before I just made a ticket. The scenario is a read heavy workload. Running a major compaction or cleanup significantly reduces throughput to the point that the compaction drags on for a long time, performance dramatically degrades, etc. I can

re-using Cassandra's Bloom Filter

2011-03-15 Thread Chris Burroughs
all of the legal ts crossed but if you see anything amiss there we will fix it right away. Thank you, Chris Burroughs Developer | Clearspring Technologies [1] http://spyced.blogspot.com/2009/01/all-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about.html [2] Circa 2009 or so. Comparisons with the new implementation