Re: Follow-up post on cassandra configuration with some experiments on GC tuning

2010-08-29 Thread Carsten Krebs
Also, note that lack of saw-toothing is not a goal in and of itself and may even be bad. For example, with respect to the young generation the situation is essentially: (1) The larger the young generation, the more significant the saw-tooth. (2) The larger the young generation, the more

Re: TokenRange contains endpoints without any port information?

2010-08-09 Thread Carsten Krebs
On 08.08.2010, at 14:47 aaron morton wrote: What sort of client side load balancing where you thinking of? I just use round robin DNS to distribute clients around the cluster, and have them recycle their connections every so often. I was thinking about to use this method to give the

TokenRange contains endpoints without any port information?

2010-08-08 Thread Carsten Krebs
I'm wondering why a TokenRange returned by describe_ring(keyspace) of the thrift API just returns endpoints consisting only of an address but omits any port information? My first thought was, this method could be used to expose some information about the ring structure to the client, i.e. to