Re: RF update

2012-10-18 Thread aaron morton
> Follow up question: Is it safe to abort the compactions happening after node > repair? It is always safe to abort a compaction. The purpose of compaction is to replicate the current truth in a more compact format. It does not modify data, it just creates new files. The worse case would be kill

Re: RF update

2012-10-17 Thread Matthias Broecheler
Follow up question: Is it safe to abort the compactions happening after node repair? On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Will Martin wrote: > +1 It doesn't make sense that the xfr compactions are heavy unless they > are translating the file. This could be a protocol mismatch: however the > require

Re: RF update

2012-10-15 Thread Will Martin
+1 It doesn't make sense that the xfr compactions are heavy unless they are translating the file. This could be a protocol mismatch: however the requirements for node level compaction and wire compaction I would expect to be pretty different. On Oct 15, 2012, at 4:42 PM, Matthias Broecheler wr

RF update

2012-10-15 Thread Matthias Broecheler
Hey, we are writing a lot of data into a cassandra cluster for a batch loading use case. We cannot use the sstable batch loader, so in order to speed up the loading process we are using RF=1 while the data is loading. After the load is complete, we want to increase the RF. For that, we are updatin