Re: row cache vs frequent row updates vs write through row cache

2010-11-05 Thread Brandon Williams
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Jeremy Davis wrote: > What do you mean by "Turning Over quickly"? What is Turning over? If it > needs to create an entirely new row, then that would create GC pressure for > sure... But if you are just updating a column in a row that is already in > the cache, then

Re: row cache vs frequent row updates vs write through row cache

2010-11-05 Thread Dave Gardner
> In short, it seems like the general advice is unless you have a set of nearly > static rows, AND they all fit in the cache, then rowcache is not recommended. That's been our experience. Leave the memory for the OS cache instead. Dave On Friday, November 5, 2010, Jeremy Davis wrote: > What do

Re: row cache vs frequent row updates vs write through row cache

2010-11-05 Thread Jeremy Davis
What do you mean by "Turning Over quickly"? What is Turning over? If it needs to create an entirely new row, then that would create GC pressure for sure... But if you are just updating a column in a row that is already in the cache, then I would think that would be the optimal situation. OTOH, you

Re: row cache vs frequent row updates vs write through row cache

2010-11-05 Thread Brandon Williams
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Jeremy Davis wrote: > I saw in the Riptano "Tuning Cassandra" slide deck that the row cache can > be detrimental if there are a lot of updates to the cached row. Is this > because the cache is not write through, and every update necessitates > creation of a new row?

row cache vs frequent row updates vs write through row cache

2010-11-05 Thread Jeremy Davis
I saw in the Riptano "Tuning Cassandra" slide deck that the row cache can be detrimental if there are a lot of updates to the cached row. Is this because the cache is not write through, and every update necessitates creation of a new row? I see there is an open issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira