Re: Defrag

2011-03-03 Thread Peter Schuller
> Potential sources of simultaneous disk write : > > - Memtable flushing > - SSTable compaction/anticompaction > - SSTable streaming > - Commitlog writes (which should be on a different drive from data per > best practices anyway..) Honestly though, last time I measured the effects of multiple str

Re: Defrag

2011-03-02 Thread Robert Coli
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Peter Schuller wrote: > Cassandra is about as friendly as it can be with respect to > fragmentation. All data is written sequentially and in bulk. That said, there can be more than one thread writing at a time, which doesn't help fragmentation. On the plus side, "m

Re: Defrag

2011-03-02 Thread Peter Schuller
> Are there any details on how much of an issue fragmentation is (with > Cassandra ) ? > With all the merging and deletes that happen with during compactions, > how does the disk fragmentation look like over time ? Any thumb-rules > on how frequently and how to defrag ? Cassan

Defrag

2011-03-02 Thread A J
Are there any details on how much of an issue fragmentation is (with Cassandra ) ? With all the merging and deletes that happen with during compactions, how does the disk fragmentation look like over time ? Any thumb-rules on how frequently and how to defrag ? Thanks.