Re: Provisioning/Configuration Question

2014-03-03 Thread Robert Coli
On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 6:30 AM, William Katsak wrote: > I am doing some academic work with Cassandra 1.1.6 (I am on an older > ... With this cluster size, I currently have loaded 135 GB of data > (replicated * 3), giving me data of ~15 GB per node. I am using Leveled > Compaction with a 5mb SSTabl

Re: Provisioning/Configuration Question

2014-03-01 Thread William Katsak
Hi Tim, On 03/01/2014 02:02 PM, Tim Wintle wrote: 137GB would fairly easily fit in core memory on a single node these days: so it seems a very low amount for a 27 node cluster.. Note that we only have 4 GB of RAM per node, so only 1 GB of Cassandra heap. Are you assuming large memory servers

Re: Provisioning/Configuration Question

2014-03-01 Thread Tim Wintle
137GB would fairly easily fit in core memory on a single node these days: so it seems a very low amount for a 27 node cluster.. Off the top of my head: would 99th percentile latency be improved by using replication factor 5, assuming you are doing quorum operations.. Sent from my phone On 1 Mar 2

Provisioning/Configuration Question

2014-03-01 Thread William Katsak
Hello, I am doing some academic work with Cassandra 1.1.6 (I am on an older version because of a bunch of implemented modifications that have been in the works for a while), and I am wondering if the list can help me resolve some questions I have. I am running a cluster of 27 nodes with the foll