Re: Howto remove currently assigned data directory from 2.0.12 nodes

2015-03-04 Thread Steffen Winther
Robert Coli eventbrite.com> writes: > > 1) stop node > 2) move sstables from no-longer-data-directories into still-data-directories Okay, just into any other random data dir? Few files here and there to spread amount of data between still-data-dirs? > 3) modify conf file > 4) start node > > I

Re: Does it makes sense to split Gossip from Thrift network

2015-03-04 Thread Steffen Winther
daemeon reiydelle gmail.com> writes: > >If your cluster is typical, your most critical resource is your >network bandwidth, >if this is the case, I would not do this split you are proposing. >One issue with large MTU's is that they are often split >at the switch fabric. Got control of my switches,

Does it makes sense to split Gossip from Thrift network

2015-03-04 Thread Steffen Winther
Hi Wondering if if makes sense to split network for client traffic vs Gossip/Internode traffic (possible with larger MTU for storage traffic). So I tried this: - Gossip storage listener (port 700x) on one network - Thrift/CQL listeners (port 9160/9042) on another Only I find it a bit confusing

Howto remove currently assigned data directory from 2.0.12 nodes

2015-03-04 Thread Steffen Winther
HI Got a cassandra cluster 2.0.12 with three nodes, that I would like to reduce storage capacity as I would like to reuse some disks for a PoC cassandra 1.2.15 cluster on the same nodes. Howto remove already assigned data file directories from running nodes? f.ex. got: data_file_directories :

java consuming lot of cpu with lots of futex calls

2015-03-04 Thread Steffen Winther
Hi Trying to make a test lab workable with cassandra 1.2.15 nodes on Centos 6.6 kernel 2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.x86_64 on top of KVM nodes. But I finding java perf very poor, seems JVM is doing a lot of futext sys calls which times out, thus spinning a lot of cpu cycles. Tried with both Oracle java 1