Re: run cassandra on a small instance

2015-02-23 Thread Tim Dunphy
You might also have some gains setting in_memory_compaction_limit_in_mb to something very low to force Cassandra to use on disk compaction rather than doing it in memory. Cool Ben.. thanks I'll add that to my config as well. Glad that helped. Thanks for reporting back! No problem, Nate!

Re: run cassandra on a small instance

2015-02-22 Thread Ben Bromhead
You might also have some gains setting in_memory_compaction_limit_in_mb to something very low to force Cassandra to use on disk compaction rather than doing it in memory. On 23 February 2015 at 14:12, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: Nate, Definitely thank you for this advice. After

Re: run cassandra on a small instance

2015-02-22 Thread Tim Dunphy
Nate, Definitely thank you for this advice. After leaving the new Cassandra node running on the 2GB instance for the past couple of days, I think I've had ample reason to report complete success in getting it stabilized on that instance! Here are the changes I've been able to make: I think

Re: run cassandra on a small instance

2015-02-20 Thread Tim Dunphy
The most important things to note: - don't include JNA (it needs to lock pages larger than what will be available) - turn down threadpools for transports - turn compaction throughput way down - make concurrent reads and writes very small I have used the above run a healthy 5 node clusters

Re: run cassandra on a small instance

2015-02-19 Thread Tim Dunphy
:* Wednesday, February 18, 2015 8:26 PM *To:* Robert Coli; user@cassandra.apache.org *Subject:* Re: run cassandra on a small instance Robert, Let me know if I’m off base about this—but I feel like I see a lot of posts that are like this (i.e., use this arbitrary version, not this other

Re: run cassandra on a small instance

2015-02-19 Thread Robert Coli
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Andrew redmu...@gmail.com wrote: Let me know if I’m off base about this—but I feel like I see a lot of posts that are like this (i.e., use this arbitrary version, not this other arbitrary version). Why are releases going out if they’re “broken”? This seems

Re: run cassandra on a small instance

2015-02-19 Thread Tim Dunphy
the apache site do the same? That’s just my lowly non-contributing opinion though. *Jason * *From:* Andrew [mailto:redmu...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, February 18, 2015 8:26 PM *To:* Robert Coli; user@cassandra.apache.org *Subject:* Re: run cassandra on a small instance Robert

Re: run cassandra on a small instance

2015-02-19 Thread Carlos Rolo
is development. Why not have the apache site do the same? That’s just my lowly non-contributing opinion though. *Jason * *From:* Andrew [mailto:redmu...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, February 18, 2015 8:26 PM *To:* Robert Coli; user@cassandra.apache.org *Subject:* Re: run cassandra

Re: run cassandra on a small instance

2015-02-19 Thread Tim Dunphy
*To:* Robert Coli; user@cassandra.apache.org *Subject:* Re: run cassandra on a small instance Robert, Let me know if I’m off base about this—but I feel like I see a lot of posts that are like this (i.e., use this arbitrary version, not this other arbitrary version). Why are releases going

Re: run cassandra on a small instance

2015-02-18 Thread Tim Dunphy
2.1.2 is IMO broken and should not be used for any purpose. Use 2.1.1 or 2.1.3. https://engineering.eventbrite.com/what-version-of-cassandra-should-i-run/ =Rob Cool man. Thanks for the info. I just upgraded to 2.1.3. We'll see how that goes. I can let you know more once it's been running

Re: run cassandra on a small instance

2015-02-18 Thread Andrew
Robert, Let me know if I’m off base about this—but I feel like I see a lot of posts that are like this (i.e., use this arbitrary version, not this other arbitrary version).  Why are releases going out if they’re “broken”?  This seems like a very confusing way for new (and existing) users to