I haven't run Cassandra in production myself, but for other high load Java based servers I've had really good scaling success with OpenSolaris. In particular I've used Joyent's "SmartOS" which has the additional advantage of "bursting" to cover brief periods of exceptional load.
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Brust, Corwin [Hollander] < corwin.br...@hollanderparts.com> wrote: > This /is/ our first cluster. We've upgraded one-over-one since 2.0.2 > (our initially deployed version), doing rolling updates across the rings. > > > > No especial resource tuning save turning off SELinux and the usual > (disabling swap, separate disk for commit logs, data and the OS). > > > > *From:* Keith Wright [mailto:kwri...@nanigans.com] > *Sent:* Monday, February 10, 2014 4:35 PM > > *To:* user@cassandra.apache.org > *Cc:* Don Jackson; Dave Carroll > *Subject:* RE: Recommended OS > > > > Is this your first cluster? Have you run older versions of Cassandra? > Any specific resource tuning? > > Thanks all. We are unable to bootstrap nodes and are considering creating > a fresh cluster in hopes this is some how data related. > > On Feb 10, 2014 5:33 PM, "Brust, Corwin [Hollander]" < > corwin.br...@hollanderparts.com> wrote: > > We're running C* 2.0.5 under CentOS 6.5 and have not noticed anything like > you describe. We have just a couple of pre-production rings (Dev and Test) > meaning nothing we have has received particularly intense utilization. > > > > Corwin > > > > *From:* Keith Wright [mailto:kwri...@nanigans.com <kwri...@nanigans.com>] > *Sent:* Monday, February 10, 2014 2:09 PM > *To:* user@cassandra.apache.org > *Cc:* Don Jackson; Dave Carroll > *Subject:* Re: Recommended OS > > > > We are running on CentOS 6.4 but an upgrade to 6.5 caused packets to > backup on the net queue causing HUGE load spikes and cluster meltdown. > Ultimately we reverted. Have others seen this? Are others running CentOS > 6.4/6.5? > > > > Thanks > > > > *From: *<Sholes>, Joshua <joshua_sho...@cable.comcast.com> > *Reply-To: *"user@cassandra.apache.org" <user@cassandra.apache.org> > *Date: *Monday, February 10, 2014 at 1:56 PM > *To: *"user@cassandra.apache.org" <user@cassandra.apache.org> > *Cc: *Don Jackson <djack...@nanigans.com>, Dave Carroll < > dcarr...@nanigans.com> > *Subject: *Re: Recommended OS > > > > What issues are you running into with CentOS 6.4/5? I'm running 1.2.8 on > CentOS 6.3 and Java 1.7.0-25, and about to test with 1.7.latest. > > -- > > Josh Sholes > > > > *From: *Keith Wright <kwri...@nanigans.com> > *Reply-To: *"user@cassandra.apache.org" <user@cassandra.apache.org> > *Date: *Monday, February 10, 2014 at 1:50 PM > *To: *"user@cassandra.apache.org" <user@cassandra.apache.org> > *Cc: *Don Jackson <djack...@nanigans.com>, Dave Carroll < > dcarr...@nanigans.com> > *Subject: *Recommended OS > > > > Hi all, > > > > I was wondering what operating systems and versions people are running > with success in production environments? We are using C* 1.2.13 and have > had issues using CentOS 6.4/6.5. Are others using that OS? What would > people recommend? What about Java 6 vs 7 (specific versions?!)? > > > > Thanks!!! > > > ------------------------------ > > > > > PRIVILEGE AND CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > The information in this electronic mail (and any associated attachments) > is intended for the named recipient(s) only and may contain privileged and > confidential information. If you have received this message in error, you > are hereby notified that any use, disclosure, copying or alteration of this > message is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient(s), > please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the > original message. Thank you. > > > > ------------------------------ > -- It's always darkest just before you are eaten by a grue.
