Re: Running Cassandra with no open TCP ports

2013-05-28 Thread Sam Overton
multiple instances of the application, and right > now whenever that happens, we get port conflicts on 7000 because Cassandra > is listening for connections. I couldn't find an obvious way to disable > listening on any port. Is there an easy way? > > Thanks! > Mark > > > > -- Sam Overton Acunu | http://www.acunu.com | @acunu

Re: Adding nodes in 1.2 with vnodes requires huge disks

2013-04-29 Thread Sam Overton
start adding nodes >>>> to the cluster. Guess not? >>>> >>>> It seems when new nodes join, they are streamed *all* sstables in the >>>> cluster. >>>> >>>> >>>> https://dl.dropbox.com/s/bampemkvlfck2dt/Screen%20Shot%202013-04-25%20at%2012.35.24%20PM.png >>>> >>>> The gray the line machine ran out disk space and for some reason >>>> cascaded into errors in the cluster about 'no host id' when trying to store >>>> hints for it (even though it hadn't joined yet). >>>> The purple line machine, I just stopped the joining process because the >>>> main cluster was dropping mutation messages at this point on a few nodes >>>> (and it still had dozens of sstables to stream.) >>>> >>>> I followed this: >>>> http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.2/operations/add_replace_nodes >>>> >>>> Is there something missing in that documentation? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> John >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> > -- Sam Overton Acunu | http://www.acunu.com | @acunu

Re: cassandra-shuffle time to completion and required disk space

2013-04-29 Thread Sam Overton
ded enough free diskspace to potentially hold the > entire cluster's sstables on disk > > Regards, > > John > -- Sam Overton Acunu | http://www.acunu.com | @acunu

Re: vnodes and load balancing - 1.2.4

2013-04-26 Thread Sam Overton
or something, > but that doesn't seem to be the case, since the node I thought that one was > on has evened out over the past couple of days with no new nodes added. > > I really *DON'T* want to deal with another shufflebut what options do > I have, since vnodes "

Re: VNodes, Replication and Minimum cluster size

2013-01-10 Thread Sam Overton
ure is always a good way to increase your confidence about availability and explore any potential degradation in your client application (latency etc.). > Thanks! > Ryan -- Sam Overton Acunu | http://www.acunu.com | @acunu

Re: wildcards as both ends

2012-06-25 Thread Sam Overton
the prefix is stored as the second part of the column name it's easy to map back to the original word. Your data blow up will be of the order of the average word length. Increased storage and write load is a standard trade-off when denormalising to gain some advantage/flexibility at query time. Regards, -- Sam Overton Acunu | http://www.acunu.com | @acunu

Re: LevelDB type compaction

2011-09-23 Thread Sam Overton
exists in multiple files? > Overlapping refers to the range of keys. The key ranges contained within the files in any given level represent a set of disjoint intervals (when level >=1). For Level0, the files may contain overlapping ranges. > Thanks for the explanation > Disclaimer: I

Re: deleted counters keeps their value?

2011-09-21 Thread Sam Overton
tombstone, and the new value is resolved with the old value which is still in the memtable. The behaviour described on the wiki and by others in this thread is what you will see if inserting a column tombstone for your counter. Sam -- Sam Overton Acunu | http://www.acunu.com | @acunu On 21 September

Re: how to know if nodetool cleanup is safe?

2011-08-23 Thread Sam Overton
istent after a read-repair, or after manual anti-entropy repair. Sam -- Sam Overton Acunu | http://www.acunu.com | @acunu

Re: Suggested settings for number crunching

2011-08-18 Thread Sam Overton
re-enable minor compactions and let compaction finish before doing your reads. Regards, Sam -- Sam Overton Acunu | http://www.acunu.com | @acunu On 18 August 2011 12:08, Paul Loy wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a program that crunches through around 3 billion calculations. We > store

Re: Question about eventually consistent in Cassandra

2011-08-03 Thread Sam Overton
talking about two columns with identical timestamps. -- Sam Overton Acunu | http://www.acunu.com | @acunu

Re: What is the nodeId for?

2011-07-20 Thread Sam Overton
s node. If one appears in the history and the other does not, it is probably safe to assume that the old NodeId was not deleted from the CurrentLocal row correctly, and so you could try removing it from there manually. Sam -- Sam Overton Acunu | http://www.acunu.com | @acunu On 20 July 2011 12:25,