Ah thanks Jonathan, this is yet again a great explanation to get me started.
Will do some digging. Thanks allot!
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote:
> it looks to me like you are describing "compaction causes a lot of
> i/o." see http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/MemtableSSTab
it looks to me like you are describing "compaction causes a lot of
i/o." see http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/MemtableSSTable#Compaction
things you can do about the extra i/o:
- increase memtable sizes (if you haven't done this yet you should,
by 10x or so)
- reduce compaction priority (see
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