Re: Struggling to understand CFS and its use.

2014-01-09 Thread Ben Coverston
(probably already know how to) keep MySQL available - scales to more files than almost anyone has =Rob -- Ben Coverston DataStax -- The Apache Cassandra Company

Re: org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.CorruptSSTableException

2013-08-05 Thread Ben Coverston
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Re: leveled compaction and tombstoned data

2012-11-09 Thread Ben Coverston
stick with sized-tier. You have several options at your disposal (compaction min/max thresholds, gc_grace) to move things along. If that doesn't help, I've heard of some fairly reputable people doing some fairly blasphemous things (major compactions every night). -- Ben Coverston DataStax

Re: leveled compaction and tombstoned data

2012-11-08 Thread Ben Coverston
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Re: leveled compaction and tombstoned data

2012-11-08 Thread Ben Coverston
run Level Compaction on that. Wish I had a URL handy, but hopefully someone else can find it. This rather handsome fellow wrote a blog about it: http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/whats-new-in-cassandra-1-1-live-traffic-sampling -Brandon -- Ben Coverston DataStax -- The Apache Cassandra

Re: persistent compaction issue (1.1.4 and 1.1.5)

2012-09-18 Thread Ben Coverston
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Re: getting status of long running repair

2012-05-07 Thread Ben Coverston
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Re: incremental_backups

2012-04-30 Thread Ben Coverston
is size? Are there any other implications? Thanks, *Tamar Fraenkel * Senior Software Engineer, TOK Media [image: Inline image 1] ta...@tok-media.com Tel: +972 2 6409736 Mob: +972 54 8356490 Fax: +972 2 5612956 -- Ben Coverston DataStax -- The Apache Cassandra Company

Re: Why so many SSTables?

2012-04-11 Thread Ben Coverston
In general I would limit the data load per node to 300 to 400GB. Otherwise things can painful when it comes time to run compaction / repair / move . +1 on more nodes of moderate size

Re: Largest 'sensible' value

2012-04-02 Thread Ben Coverston
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Re: Exceptions related to thrift transport

2012-03-21 Thread Ben Coverston
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Re: Single Node Cassandra Installation

2012-03-16 Thread Ben Coverston
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Re: Please advise -- 750MB object possible?

2012-02-27 Thread Ben Coverston
GridFS for Cassandra here, take it FWIW. AFAIK Joaquin spent a few hours putting this together at most. https://github.com/joaquincasares/gratefs -- Ben Coverston DataStax -- The Apache Cassandra Company

Re: Cassndra 1.0.6 GC query

2012-02-27 Thread Ben Coverston
-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/Cassndra-1-0-6-GC-query-tp7323457p7323690.html Sent from the cassandra-u...@incubator.apache.org mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Ben Coverston DataStax -- The Apache Cassandra Company

Re: how stable is 1.0 these days?

2012-01-30 Thread Ben Coverston
to use composite types and create/drop column families on the fly you must be prepared to instabilities. -- Ben Coverston DataStax -- The Apache Cassandra Company

Re: gracefully recover from data file corruptions

2011-12-16 Thread Ben Coverston
the cassandra java process ( send a sigterm and or sigkill ) - do a filesystem sync - remove the corrupted file from the /var/lib/cassandra/data directory - start cassandra - enable gossip so all pending hintedhandoff occurs - enable thrift. Thanks Ramesh -- Ben Coverston DataStax

Re: OOM

2011-11-02 Thread Ben Coverston
Smells like ulimit. Have you been able to reproduce this with the C* process running as root? On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 8:12 AM, A J s5a...@gmail.com wrote: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread

Re: cassandra.bat install

2011-10-06 Thread Ben Coverston
It looks like it's missing from the binary distribution. If you download the source distribution it will be present. I'll see if I can get it included in the source build. Ben On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Stephen Pope stephen.p...@quest.com wrote: I’ve got the 1.0 rc2 binaries, but it

Re: Argh: Data Corruption (LOST DATA) (0.7.0)

2011-02-07 Thread Ben Coverston
Dan, Do you have any more information on this issue? Have you been able to discover anything from exporing your SSTables to JSON? Thanks, Ben On 1/29/11 12:45 PM, Dan Hendry wrote: I am once again having severe problems with my Cassandra cluster. This time, I straight up cannot read