I guess this is not really a WARN in that case.
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 4:29 PM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com> wrote: > The ratio is the ratio of serialised bytes for a memtable to actual JVM > allocated memory. Using a ratio below 1 would imply the JVM is using less > bytes to store the memtable in memory than it takes to store it on disk > (without compression). > > The ceiling for the ratio is 64. > > The ratio is calculated periodically so if the workload changes, such as > system start up, the number will lag behind. I would guess numbers less than > 1 mean the memtable does not have any data. > > Cheers > > ----------------- > Aaron Morton > Freelance Developer > @aaronmorton > http://www.thelastpickle.com > > On 1/02/2012, at 8:27 AM, Radim Kolar wrote: > > > but a ration of< 1 may occur > > for column families with a very high update to insert ratio. > > better to ask why minimum ratio is 1.0. What harm can be done with using < > 1.0 ratio? > >