Re: Soliciting thoughts on possible read optimization

2010-08-11 Thread Ryan King
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Arya Asemanfar wrote: > I mentioned this today to a couple folks at Cassandra Summit, and thought > I'd solicit some more thoughts here. > Currently, the read stage includes checking row cache. So if your concurrent > reads is N and you have N reads reading from di

Re: Soliciting thoughts on possible read optimization

2010-08-11 Thread Edward Capriolo
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Ryan King wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Arya Asemanfar > wrote: >> I mentioned this today to a couple folks at Cassandra Summit, and thought >> I'd solicit some more thoughts here. >> Currently, the read stage includes checking row cache. So if your

File write errors but cassandra isn't crashing

2010-08-11 Thread Ran Tavory
Due to administrative error one of the hosts in the cluster lost permission to write to it's data directory. So I started seeing errors in the log, however, the server continued serving traffic. It wasn't able to compact and do other write operations but it didn't crash. I was wondering wether that

Re: Using a separate commit log drive was 4x slower

2010-08-11 Thread Jeremy Davis
Thanks for all the feedback, I'll be back in 2 weeks and pick up then. -JD On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Peter Schuller wrote: > > Yeah, it has a BBU, and it is charged and on.. > > Very odd behavior, I'm stumped. > > I advise double-checking raid volume settings and ensuring that policy > is

the 0.7 beta process

2010-08-11 Thread Aaron Morton
Thanks for the 0.7 beta  1 release. I know this is a how long is a piece of string question, but anyone got a feel for how long the beta / release candidate process may take? According to git hub 0.6 beta 1 was tagged  on march 14 and 0.6 on april 12 I'm probably going to jump ship from 0.6 to 0.7

a plea not to remove rowsize warning

2010-08-11 Thread Edward Capriolo
Hello all, I recently posted on list about a situation where two of my nodes from my 16 node were garbage collecting and at ooming. I was able to move my xmx from 9gb to 11gb to see that rather then my memory saw tooth. I would saw tooth around 4 gb before memory shot up like a rocket. After digg

whirr/cassandra support

2010-08-11 Thread Jeremy Hanna
Looks like Cassandra is now supported by the whirr incubator project now. Whirr is an apache incubator project that runs cloud services in a cloud provider (ec2, rackspace cloud, etc.) neutral way: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WHIRR/Index One of the first use cases is Cassandra -

Corrupt file after restarting in 0.7

2010-08-11 Thread Mark
When I kill cassandra and restart I keep seeing the following error message. Is this something I should be concerned about? I though killing cassandra via kill $PID was somewhat "safe"??? Thanks Switching to ParallelGC to avoid CMS/CompressedOops incompatibility INFO 17:05:08,680 DiskAccessMod

0.7 CLI w/TSocket

2010-08-11 Thread Mark
"org.apache.thrift.protocol.TProtocolException: Missing version in readMessageBegin, old client?" Is the CLI not supported when using TSocket? I don't believe this was the same in 0.6. Can someone explain the differences between TFramedTransport vs TSocket. I tried searching but I couldn't f

Reload/Update schema 0.7

2010-08-11 Thread Mark
How is this accomplished? I tried using the org.apache.cassandra.service.StorageService.loadSchemaFromYAML() method but I am receiving the following error. java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: org.apache.cassandra.config.ConfigurationException: Cannot load from XML on top of pre-existin

Re: Corrupt file after restarting in 0.7

2010-08-11 Thread Brandon Williams
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Mark wrote: > When I kill cassandra and restart I keep seeing the following error > message. Is this something I should be concerned about? > No, there's just a race condition as evidenced by these lines: INFO 17:05:08,933 Deleted /var/lib/cassandra/data/system/

Re: Corrupt file after restarting in 0.7

2010-08-11 Thread Mark
On 8/11/10 8:02 PM, Brandon Williams wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Mark > wrote: When I kill cassandra and restart I keep seeing the following error message. Is this something I should be concerned about? No, there's just a race condition as

Re: Soliciting thoughts on possible read optimization

2010-08-11 Thread Jonathan Ellis
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1379 On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Arya Asemanfar wrote: > I mentioned this today to a couple folks at Cassandra Summit, and thought > I'd solicit some more thoughts here. > Currently, the read stage includes checking row cache. So if your concur

Re: the 0.7 beta process

2010-08-11 Thread Jonathan Ellis
Seems like 0.7beta1 is of a similar baked-ness to 0.6beta1 to me. On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Aaron Morton wrote: > Thanks for the 0.7 beta  1 release. > I know this is a how long is a piece of string question, but anyone got a > feel for how long the beta / release candidate process may tak

Re: 0.7 CLI w/TSocket

2010-08-11 Thread Jonathan Ellis
you have to use an up to date CLI, the old one used broken options w/ its framed mode On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Mark wrote: > "org.apache.thrift.protocol.TProtocolException: Missing version in > readMessageBegin, old client?" > > Is the CLI not supported when using TSocket? I don't believe