Re: "no snappyjava in java.library.path" (JDK 1.7 issue?)

2012-05-15 Thread Stephen McKamey
Reverting to JDK 1.6 appears to fix the issue. Is JDK 1.7 not yet supported by Cassandra? java version "1.6.0_31" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_31-b04-415-11M3635) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.6-b01-415, mixed mode) On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Steph

"no snappyjava in java.library.path" (JDK 1.7 issue?)

2012-05-15 Thread Stephen McKamey
I'm getting a org.xerial.snappy.SnappyError when creating my first column family after blowing away my Cassandra installation and trying to run the latest release. I'm undoubtably making some silly mistake but cannot seem to find it. I even commented out my "sstable_compression=SnappyCompressor" se

EC2 Maintenance Reboot

2011-12-07 Thread Stephen McKamey
I just received an email from AWS about rebooting my EC2 instance for maintenance. Thankfully this is just my webhead, but I'm curious have others experienced this with a Cassandra instance? http://aws.amazon.com/maintenance-help/ The details seem to say that if you allow them to do the reboot fo

Cluster properties via Thrift?

2011-08-31 Thread Stephen McKamey
Is there any way to initialize via thrift cluster configuration properties (e.g., partitioner)? Do you always have to set these values via the cassandra.yaml file? I'm trying to programmatically build out all of my schema so that I can build out a fresh install just by running the app.

Expiring Columns

2011-08-15 Thread Stephen McKamey
I'm curious about Expiring Columns. Say I create a Column Family where *all* of the Columns are set to be expiring columns. When a row's entire set of columns have expired, will an empty row it sill be returned in range queries? Or will it just be nicely compacted away?

RE: batch_mutate failed: out of sequence response

2011-04-12 Thread Stephen McKamey
[I wrote this Apr 10, 2011 at 12:09 but my message seems to have gotten lost along the way.] I use Pelops (the 1.0-0.7.x build from the Github Maven repo) and have occasionally seen this message (under load or during GC). I have a test app running in two separate single-threaded processes doing a