our write happen in bursts. So often times, clients write data as fast as they can. Conceivably one can write 5G in one hour. The other setting that we have is that our replication factor is 3 and we write using QUORUM. Not sure if that will affect things.
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Peter Schuller < peter.schul...@infidyne.com> wrote: > > I haven't explictly set a value for the memtable_flush_after_mins > parameter. > > Looks like the default is 60minutes. > > I will try to play around this value to see if that fixes things. > > Is the amount of data in the commit log consistent with what you might > have been writing during 60 minutes? Including overwrites. If not, I'm > not sure what's going on. Since you said it took about a day of > traffic it feels fishy. > > -- > / Peter Schuller >
