Oleg,
I just wanted to add that I confirmed the importance of that "rule of thumb"
the hard way. I created two extra CFs and was able to reliably crash the
nodes during writes. I guess for the final setting I'll rely on results of
my testing.
But it's also important to not cause the swap death o
> I am trying to understand the relationship between data set/SSTable(s) size
> and
> Cassandra heap.
http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/LargeDataSetConsiderations
> For a rough rule of thumb, Cassandra's internal datastructures will require
> about memtable_throughput_in_mb * 3 * number of hot C
