Re: Node repair questions

2011-07-11 Thread Peter Schuller
> The more often you repair, the quicker it will be.  The more often your > nodes go down the longer it will be. Going to have to disagree a bit here. In most cases the cost of running through the data and calculating the merkle tree should be quite significant, and hopefully the differences shoul

Re: Node repair questions

2011-07-11 Thread Peter Schuller
(not answering (1) right now, because it's more involved) > 2. Does a Nodetool Repair block any reads and writes on the node, > while the repair is going on ? During repair, if I try to do an > insert, will the insert wait for repair to complete first ? It doesn't imply any blocking. It's roughly

RE: Node repair questions

2011-07-11 Thread Jeremiah Jordan
be able to compare with other nodes, and if there are differences, it has to send/receive data from other nodes. -Original Message- From: A J [mailto:s5a...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 2:43 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Node repair questions Hello, Have the

Node repair questions

2011-07-11 Thread A J
Hello, Have the following questions related to nodetool repair: 1. I know that Nodetool Repair Interval has to be less than GCGraceSeconds. How do I come up with an exact value of GCGraceSeconds and 'Nodetool Repair Interval'. What factors would want me to change the default of 10 days of GCGraceSe