Hi, Change to *|durable_writes = false|*
And please post the results. Thanks. On 05/22/2017 10:08 PM, Jonathan Haddad wrote: > How many CPUs are you using for interrupts? > > http://www.alexonlinux.com/smp-affinity-and-proper-interrupt-handling-in-linux > > Have you tried making a flame graph to see where Cassandra is spending > its > time? http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-06-12/java-flame-graphs.html > > Are you tracking GC pauses? > > Jon > > On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 2:03 PM Eric Pederson <eric...@gmail.com > <mailto:eric...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi all: > > I'm new to Cassandra and I'm doing some performance testing. One > of things that I'm testing is ingestion throughput. My server > setup is: > > * 3 node cluster > * SSD data (both commit log and sstables are on the same disk) > * 64 GB RAM per server > * 48 cores per server > * Cassandra 3.0.11 > * 48 Gb heap using G1GC > * 1 Gbps NICs > > Since I'm using SSD I've tried tuning the following (one at a > time) but none seemed to make a lot of difference: > > * concurrent_writes=384 > * memtable_flush_writers=8 > * concurrent_compactors=8 > > I am currently doing ingestion tests sending data from 3 clients > on the same subnet. I am using cassandra-stress to do some > ingestion testing. The tests are using CL=ONE and RF=2. > > Using cassandra-stress (3.10) I am able to saturate the disk using > a large enough column size and the standard five column > cassandra-stress schema. For example, -col size=fixed(400) will > saturate the disk and compactions will start falling behind. > > One of our main tables has a row size that approximately 200 > bytes, across 64 columns. When ingesting this table I don't see > any resource saturation. Disk utilization is around 10-15% per > iostat. Incoming network traffic on the servers is around 100-300 > Mbps. CPU utilization is around 20-70%. nodetool tpstats shows > mostly zeros with occasional spikes around 500 in MutationStage. > > The stress run does 10,000,000 inserts per client, each with a > separate range of partition IDs. The run with 200 byte rows takes > about 4 minutes, with mean Latency 4.5ms, Total GC time of 21 > secs, Avg GC time 173 ms. > > The overall performance is good - around 120k rows/sec ingested. > But I'm curious to know where the bottleneck is. There's no > resource saturation andnodetool tpstats shows only occasional > brief queueing. Is the rest just expected latency inside of > Cassandra? > > Thanks, > > -- Eric >