Re: Any problem mounting a keyspace directory in ram memory?

2015-02-02 Thread Gabriel Menegatti
Hi Colin, Yes, we don't want to use the C* in-memory, we just want to mount the keyspace data directory to RAM instead of leaving it on the spinning disks. My question is more related to the technical side of mounting the keyspace data folder to the ram memory than checking if Cassandra has

Re: Any problem mounting a keyspace directory in ram memory?

2015-02-02 Thread Gabriel Menegatti
Hi Jan, Thanks for your reply, but C* in-memory just supports 1 GB keyspaces at the moment, what is not enough for us. My question is more related to the technical side of mounting the keyspace data folder to the ram memory than checking if Cassandra has some in-memory feature. My intention

Re: Any problem mounting a keyspace directory in ram memory?

2015-02-02 Thread Hannu Kröger
At least I cannot think of any reason why it wouldn't work. As you said, you might lose the data but if you can live with that then why not. Hannu On 02.02.2015, at 14:21 , Gabriel Menegatti gabr...@s1mbi0se.com.br wrote: Hi Colin, Yes, we don't want to use the C* in-memory, we just want

Any problem mounting a keyspace directory in ram memory?

2015-02-01 Thread Gabriel Menegatti
Hi guys, Please, does anyone here already mounted a specific keyspace directory to ram memory using tmpfs? Do you see any problem doing so, except by the fact that the data can be lost? Thanks in advance. Regards, Gabriel.

Re: Any problem mounting a keyspace directory in ram memory?

2015-02-01 Thread Jan
HI Gabriel;  I don't think Apache Cassandra supports in-memory keyspaces. However Datastax Enterprise does support it.  Quoting from Datastax: DataStax Enterprise includes the in-memory option for storing data to and accessing data from memory exclusively. No disk I/O occurs. Consider using the