My objection (-0.5) is based on freeze not in code complexity
-- Jeff Jirsa > On Oct 23, 2018, at 8:59 AM, Benedict Elliott Smith <bened...@apache.org> > wrote: > > To discuss the concerns about the patch for a more efficient representation: > > The risk from such a patch is very low. It’s a very simple in-memory data > structure, that we can introduce thorough fuzz tests for. The reason to > exclude it would be for reasons of wanting to begin strictly enforcing the > freeze only. This is a good enough reason in my book, which is why I’m > neutral on its addition. I just wanted to provide some context for everyone > else's voting intention. > > >> On 23 Oct 2018, at 16:51, Ariel Weisberg <ar...@weisberg.ws> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I just asked Jeff. He is -0 and -0.5 respectively. >> >> Ariel >> >>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018, at 11:50 AM, Benedict Elliott Smith wrote: >>> I’m +1 change of default. I think Jeff was -1 on that though. >>> >>> >>>> On 23 Oct 2018, at 16:46, Ariel Weisberg <ar...@weisberg.ws> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> To summarize who we have heard from so far >>>> >>>> WRT to changing just the default: >>>> >>>> +1: >>>> Jon Haddadd >>>> Ben Bromhead >>>> Alain Rodriguez >>>> Sankalp Kohli (not explicit) >>>> >>>> -0: >>>> Sylvaine Lebresne >>>> Jeff Jirsa >>>> >>>> Not sure: >>>> Kurt Greaves >>>> Joshua Mckenzie >>>> Benedict Elliot Smith >>>> >>>> WRT to change the representation: >>>> >>>> +1: >>>> There are only conditional +1s at this point >>>> >>>> -0: >>>> Sylvaine Lebresne >>>> >>>> -.5: >>>> Jeff Jirsa >>>> >>>> This >>>> (https://github.com/aweisberg/cassandra/commit/a9ae85daa3ede092b9a1cf84879fb1a9f25b9dce) >>>> is a rough cut of the change for the representation. It needs better >>>> naming, unit tests, javadoc etc. but it does implement the change. >>>> >>>> Ariel >>>>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2018, at 3:42 PM, Jonathan Haddad wrote: >>>>> Sorry, to be clear - I'm +1 on changing the configuration default, but I >>>>> think changing the compression in memory representations warrants further >>>>> discussion and investigation before making a case for or against it yet. >>>>> An optimization that reduces in memory cost by over 50% sounds pretty good >>>>> and we never were really explicit that those sort of optimizations would >>>>> be >>>>> excluded after our feature freeze. I don't think they should necessarily >>>>> be excluded at this time, but it depends on the size and risk of the >>>>> patch. >>>>> >>>>>> On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 8:38 AM Jonathan Haddad <j...@jonhaddad.com> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I think we should try to do the right thing for the most people that we >>>>>> can. The number of folks impacted by 64KB is huge. I've worked on a lot >>>>>> of clusters created by a lot of different teams, going from brand new to >>>>>> pretty damn knowledgeable. I can't think of a single time over the last >>>>>> 2 >>>>>> years that I've seen a cluster use non-default settings for compression. >>>>>> With only a handful of exceptions, I've lowered the chunk size >>>>>> considerably >>>>>> (usually to 4 or 8K) and the impact has always been very noticeable, >>>>>> frequently resulting in hardware reduction and cost savings. Of all the >>>>>> poorly chosen defaults we have, this is one of the biggest offenders >>>>>> that I >>>>>> see. There's a good reason ScyllaDB claims they're so much faster than >>>>>> Cassandra - we ship a DB that performs poorly for 90+% of teams because >>>>>> we >>>>>> ship for a specific use case, not a general one (time series on memory >>>>>> constrained boxes being the specific use case) >>>>>> >>>>>> This doesn't impact existing tables, just new ones. More and more teams >>>>>> are using Cassandra as a general purpose database, we should acknowledge >>>>>> that adjusting our defaults accordingly. Yes, we use a little bit more >>>>>> memory on new tables if we just change this setting, and what we get out >>>>>> of >>>>>> it is a massive performance win. >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm +1 on the change as well. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 4:21 AM Sankalp Kohli <kohlisank...@gmail.com> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> (We should definitely harden the definition for freeze in a separate >>>>>>> thread) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> My thinking is that this is the best time to do this change as we have >>>>>>> not even cut alpha or beta. All the people involved in the test will >>>>>>> definitely be testing it again when we have these releases. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Oct 19, 2018, at 8:00 AM, Michael Shuler <mich...@pbandjelly.org> >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On 10/19/18 9:16 AM, Joshua McKenzie wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> At the risk of hijacking this thread, when are we going to transition >>>>>>> from >>>>>>>>> "no new features, change whatever else you want including refactoring >>>>>>> and >>>>>>>>> changing years-old defaults" to "ok, we think we have something that's >>>>>>>>> stable, time to start testing"? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Creating a cassandra-4.0 branch would allow trunk to, for instance, get >>>>>>>> a default config value change commit and get more testing. We might >>>>>>>> forget again, from what I understand of Benedict's last comment :) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>> Michael >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org >>>>>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org >>>>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Jon Haddad >>>>>> http://www.rustyrazorblade.com >>>>>> twitter: rustyrazorblade >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Jon Haddad >>>>> http://www.rustyrazorblade.com >>>>> twitter: rustyrazorblade >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org >>>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org