10-4. I'll see if I can track it down and submit a pull request that specifies a default if one does not exist.
-brian ---- Brian O'Neill Lead Architect, Software Development Health Market Science | 2700 Horizon Drive | King of Prussia, PA 19406 p: 215.588.6024blog: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/boneill42/ blog: http://brianoneill.blogspot.com/ On 3/27/12 9:45 PM, "Jonathan Ellis" <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: >I believe we added support for specifying a column range to the cli >recently. I don't know if there is a default limit. > >On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Brian O'Neill <b...@alumni.brown.edu> >wrote: >> Today, running 1.0.7, we saw a node crash with an OutOfMemory. >> We have a single row with ~10million columns in it. (using it as an >>index) >> Accidentally, we attempted to list the CF in CLI that had the wide-row. >> This caused the CLI to hang and then eventually crashed Cassandra with >>an >> OoM. >> >> I know this is a case of "If it hurts when you do that, don't do that", >>but >> we may want to better protect against it in the CLI and/or the DB. I >>know >> we limit row counts on lists in CLI. Do we also limit column counts? >>If >> not, I don't mind submitting a patch for this. >> >> let me know, >> brian >> >> -- >> Brian ONeill >> Lead Architect, Health Market Science (http://healthmarketscience.com) >> mobile:215.588.6024 >> blog: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/boneill42/ >> blog: http://brianoneill.blogspot.com/ > > > >-- >Jonathan Ellis >Project Chair, Apache Cassandra >co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support >http://www.datastax.com
