Re: offline compaction

2012-03-08 Thread Mike Panchenko
Yes, that is what would happen; some anti entropy mechanism would have to perform the replication after the fact (hinted handoff, read repair, manual repair etc). For most things, it's better to rely on the dynamic endpoint snitch and some sort of dynamic load balancing from the client (see: https

Re: Restart cassandra every X days?

2012-01-25 Thread Mike Panchenko
There are two relevant bugs (that I know of), both resolved in somewhat recent versions, which make somewhat regular restarts beneficial https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2868 (memory leak in GCInspector, fixed in 0.7.9/0.8.5) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2252 (hea