Re: Upgrade to a different version?

2011-03-17 Thread Paul Pak
On 3/17/2011 1:06 PM, Thibaut Britz wrote: > If it helps you to sleep better, > > we use cassandra (0.7.2 with the flush fix) in production on > 100 > servers. > > Thibaut > Thanks Thibaut, believe it or not, it does. :) Is your use case a typical web app or something like a scientific/data mini

Re: Upgrade to a different version?

2011-03-17 Thread Paul Pak
I'm at a crossroads right now. We built an application around .7 and the features in .7, so going back to .6 wasn't an option for us. Now, we are in the middle of setting up dual mysql and cassandra support so that we can "fallback" to mysql if Cassandra can't handle the workload properly. It's

Re: Upgrade to a different version?

2011-03-16 Thread Paul Pak
ed without adequate testing. Hopefully, at some point soon, it will get better and doing a data import job won't take a cassandra cluster to it's knees or we won't experience stop the world GC issues and have out of memory errors from routine usage. Paul On 3/16/2011 2:13 PM,

Re: Upgrade to a different version?

2011-03-16 Thread Paul Pak
Hi Jake, I'm sending this privately, because I wanted to tell you my opinion frankly. I don't know about the .6 series or .74, but so far, all of the .7 series of cassandra has been a disaster. I would think twice about switching to anything in .7 series to production until things stabilize and

Re: Nodes frozen in GC

2011-03-08 Thread Paul Pak
ld share, what happened in the default config, what steps you did that helped the situation, h Tow much each step helped your situation. That way we can start a checklist of things to address as we grow in load. Paul On 3/8/2011 5:15 AM, ruslan usifov wrote: > > > 2011/3/8 Paul Pak mailto

Re: Nodes frozen in GC

2011-03-07 Thread Paul Pak
Hi Ruslan, It looks like Jonathan and Stu have already been working to reduce garbage collection on v.8 The ticket is at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2252 Jonathan, is there any way to apply the patch to .73 and have ruslan test it to see if it fixes his issue with Garbage col

Re: Nodes frozen in GC

2011-03-07 Thread Paul Pak
So, are you saying this is normal and expected from Cassandra? So, under load, we can expect java garbage collection to stop the Cassandra process on that server from time to time, essentially taking out the node for short periods of time while it does garbage collection? Also, why is there so mu

recommended way to grow a cluster?

2011-03-07 Thread Paul Pak
Hello, I'm doing some testing of Cassandra and I've read a lot about people running into situations growing their clusters. So, I'm about to test it with .7.3. I've got a test node which is a single node with a replication factor of 1. I'd like to grow it to 3 nodes and a replication factor of

cassandra in-production experiences with .7 series

2011-03-05 Thread Paul Pak
Hello all, I was wondering if people could share their overall experiences with using .7 series of Cassandra in production? Is anyone using it? I see a lot of people have troubles on the list, but it's hard to see which issues get resolved and which remain. So I was wondering how many people ac

re: can't create a jira ticket for cassandra

2011-01-09 Thread Paul Pak
Hi, I tried to create a JIRA ticket for Cassandra and got the following error on submission. java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "" at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(NumberFormatException.java:48) at java.lang.Long.parseLong(Long.java:431) at

Re: Cassandra gotchas ...

2011-01-08 Thread Paul Pak
Hi all, After using Cassandra some time, I had some comments on Cassandra and hope they spark productive conversation on the list. They are meant only as constructive feedback as a user of Cassandra. While there are many things great about Cassandra, I still feel that the current implementation