Re: RandomPartitioner is providing a very skewed distribution of keys across a 5-node Solandra cluster

2012-06-25 Thread Safdar Kureishy
Hi Jake, Thanks. Yes, I forgot to mention also that I had raised the solandra.shards.at.once param from 4 to 5 (to match the # of nodes). Should I have raised it to 10 or 15 (multiple of 5)? I have added all the documents that I needed to the index now. It appears the distribution became more

Removing a counter columns using Thrift interface

2012-06-25 Thread Patrik Modesto
Hi, I was playing with Counters in Cassandra 1.0.10 and I see a behaviour that I didn't expect. It's about removing a Counter column. I'm used to use Mutation for everything, so the first thing I tried was Deletion on Counter column. Well, nothing happened. No error and the Counter column was

Re: Removing a counter columns using Thrift interface

2012-06-25 Thread Sylvain Lebresne
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Patrik Modesto patrik.mode...@gmail.com wrote: I'm used to use Mutation for everything, so the first thing I tried was Deletion on Counter column. Well, nothing happened. No error and the Counter column was still there. That shouldn't happen. The second try

repair never finishing 1.0.7

2012-06-25 Thread Alexandru Sicoe
Hello everyone, I have a 2 DC (DC1:3 and DC2:6) Cassandra1.0.7 setup. I have about 300GB/node in the DC2. The DCs are communicating over a gateway where I do NAT for ports 7000, 9160 and 7199. I did a nodetool repair on a node in DC2 without any external load on the system. It took 5 hrs

Re: repair never finishing 1.0.7

2012-06-25 Thread Andras Szerdahelyi
The DCs are communicating over a gateway where I do NAT for ports 7000, 9160 and 7199. Ah, that sounds familiar. You don't mention if you are VPN'd or not. I'll assume you are not. So, your nodes are behind network address translation - is that to say they advertise ( broadcast ) their

Re: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread

2012-06-25 Thread Jake Luciani
This means you need to raise the nproc limit for the user you run cassandra with On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Oli Schacher cassan...@lists.wgwh.chwrote: Hi list I have a small cassandra cluster consisting of three nodes. Every few weeks the whole cluster goes down at the same time. All

Re: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread

2012-06-25 Thread Oli Schacher
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:31:18 -0400 Jake Luciani jak...@gmail.com wrote: This means you need to raise the nproc limit for the user you run cassandra with Centos 6 apparently introduced a default nproc limit of 1024. I raised this for the cassandra user now and hope the crashes are gone.

Migrate keyspace from version 1.0.8 to 1.1.1

2012-06-25 Thread Thierry Templier
Hello, What is the correct way to migrate a keyspace version 1.0.8 to 1.1.1? Is there a documentation on this subject? Thanks for your help. Thierry

Re: cqlsh commands

2012-06-25 Thread Thierry Templier
Hello Paul, I thought but I can't reproduce the problem anymore... Don't know what really happens. Thanks very much for your message! Thierry What do you mean when you say you can't display the related documentations using the help command? What does cqlsh do instead? I don't know about

Re: wildcards as both ends

2012-06-25 Thread Sam Overton
Hi Sam, On 20 June 2012 15:20, Sam Z J sammyjiang...@gmail.com wrote: - for each string I have, index all the prefixes in a column family, e.g. for string 'string', I'd have rows string, strin, stri, str, st, s, with column values somehow pointing back as row keys. This almost blows up the

Interpreting system.log MeteredFlusher messages

2012-06-25 Thread rohit bhatia
Hi We have 8 cassandra 1.0.5 nodes with 16 cores and 32G ram, Heap size is 12G, memtable_total_space_in_mb is one third = 4G, There are 12 Hot CFs (write-read ratio of 10). memtable_flush_queue_size = 4 and memtable_flush_writers = 2.. I got this log-entry MeteredFlusher.java (line 74)

Enable CQL3 from Astyanax

2012-06-25 Thread Thierry Templier
Hello, How can I enable CQL3 support in Astyanax? Thanks very much for your help! Thierry

Re: RandomPartitioner is providing a very skewed distribution of keys across a 5-node Solandra cluster

2012-06-25 Thread Safdar Kureishy
Got it. Thanks Jake. Will do. Safdar On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Jake Luciani jak...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sarfar, Yes you should make it a multiple. The issue is each shard 'sticks' to a given node but there is no way to guarantee 5 random keys will equally distribute across 5

Request Timeout with Composite Columns and CQL3

2012-06-25 Thread Henning Kropp
Hi, I am running into timeout issues using composite columns in cassandra 1.1.1 and cql 3. My keyspace and table is defined as the following: create keyspace bn_logs with strategy_options = [{replication_factor:1}] and placement_strategy = 'org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleStrategy';

key_cache_size_in_mb

2012-06-25 Thread Gurpreet Singh
Hi, I have a question about cassandra 1.1 Just wanted to confirm if key_cache_size_in_mb is the maximum amount of memory that key cache will use in memory? If not, what is it? My observations: With key cache disabled, I started cassandra. I invoked Full GC through jconsole a couple of times just