dropped mutations, UnavailableException, and long GC

2011-02-24 Thread Jeffrey Wang
Hey all, Our setup is 5 machines running Cassandra 0.7.0 with 24GB of heap and 1.5TB disk each collocated in a DC. We're doing bulk imports from each of the nodes with RF = 2 and write consistency ANY (write perf is very important). The behavior we're seeing is this: - Nodes often

Re: dropped mutations, UnavailableException, and long GC

2011-02-24 Thread Narendra Sharma
1. Why 24GB of heap? Do you need this high heap? Bigger heap can lead to longer GC cycles but 15min look too long. 2. Do you have ROW cache enabled? 3. How many column families do you have? 4. Enable GC logs and monitor what GC is doing to get idea of why it is taking so long. You can add