Re: Best version to upgrade from 1.1.10 to 1.2.X

2013-09-24 Thread Charles Brophy
Hi Paulo, I just completed a migration from 1.1.10 to 1.2.10 and it was surprisingly painless. The course of action that I took: 1) describe cluster - make sure all nodes are on the same schema 2) shutoff all maintenance tasks; i.e. make sure no scheduled repair is going to kick off in the middle

Re: Size Tiered -> Leveled Compaction

2013-02-14 Thread Charles Brophy
I second these questions: we've been looking into changing some of our CFs to use leveled compaction as well. If anybody here has the wisdom to answer them it would be of wonderful help. Thanks Charles On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Mike wrote: > Hello, > > I'm investigating the transition of

Re: Running repair negatively impacts read performance?

2012-10-03 Thread Charles Brophy
settle" or some such. Thanks Charles On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Charles Brophy wrote: > Odd indeed. > > 1) It is observable after the compactions are through and the system has > "settled" > 2) We're using SizeTiered strategy > 3) CentOS 6 & Oracle

Re: Running repair negatively impacts read performance?

2012-09-28 Thread Charles Brophy
rom cf stats ? > > Do you have some read latency numbers from cfstats ? > Also, could you take a look at cfhistograms ? > > Cheers > > > - > Aaron Morton > Freelance Developer > @aaronmorton > http://www.thelastpickle.com > > On 26/09

Re:

2012-09-25 Thread Charles Brophy
There are settings in cassandra.yaml that will _gradually_ reduce the available cache to zero if you are under constant memory pressure: # Set to 1.0 to disable. reduce_cache_sizes_at: * reduce_cache_capacity_to: * My experience is that the cache size will not return to the configured size unt

Running repair negatively impacts read performance?

2012-09-25 Thread Charles Brophy
Hey guys, I've begun to notice that read operations take a performance nose-dive after a standard (full) repair of a fairly large column family: ~11 million records. Interestingly, I've then noticed that read performance returns to normal after a full scrub of the column family. Is it possible tha

Re: Invalid Counter Shard errors?

2012-09-07 Thread Charles Brophy
I have a very reliable repro case on our cluster involving nodetool repair. I posted a summary in a comment on the issue. Let me know if more details are needed. Charles On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Sylvain Lebresne wrote: > > Is there a way to fix this error ? What is its impact on my data ?

Sudden massive counter increments on node restart

2012-06-22 Thread Charles Brophy
Hi guys, Cassandra: 1.1.1 Size: 6, even token distribution, random partitioner JVM 1.6.0_31 kernel: 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 24 cores, 96 GB RAM each We're seeing something pretty distressing in our cluster. When a node is brought down using "nodetool drain" and then brought back up, some of our coun

Invalid Counter Shard errors?

2012-05-31 Thread Charles Brophy
Hi guys, We're running a three node cluster of cassandra 1.1 servers, originally 1.0.7 and immediately after the upgrade the error logs of all three servers began filling up with the following message: ERROR [ReplicateOnWriteStage:177] 2012-05-31 08:17:02,236 CounterContext.java (line 381) invali