Re: Node tokens / data move

2013-07-14 Thread Eric Stevens
My understanding is that it is not possible to change the number of tokens after the node has been initialized. To do so you would first need to decommission the node, then start it clean with the appropriate num_tokens in the yaml. On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 9:17 PM, Radim Kolar wrote: > its pos

Re: Node tokens / data move

2013-07-14 Thread aaron morton
> Pretty sure you can put the list in the yaml file too. Yup, sorry. initial_tokens can take a comma separated value Cheers - Aaron Morton Cassandra Consultant New Zealand @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 15/07/2013, at 9:44 AM, Eric Stevens wrote: > My understand

Re: IllegalArgumentException on query with AbstractCompositeType

2013-07-14 Thread aaron morton
> Aaron Morton can confirm but I think one problem could be that to create an > index on a field with small number of possible values is not good. Yes. In cassandra each value in the index becomes a single row in the internal secondary index CF. You will end up with a huge row for all the values

Re: Rhombus - A time-series object store for Cassandra

2013-07-14 Thread aaron morton
For those following along at home, recently another project in this space was announced https://github.com/deanhiller/databus Cheers - Aaron Morton Cassandra Consultant New Zealand @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 13/07/2013, at 4:01 PM, Ananth Gundabattula wrote:

Re: IllegalArgumentException on query with AbstractCompositeType

2013-07-14 Thread Tristan Seligmann
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:26 AM, aaron morton wrote: > Aaron Morton can confirm but I think one problem could be that to create > an index on a field with small number of possible values is not good. > > Yes. > In cassandra each value in the index becomes a single row in the internal > secondary

Re: Rhombus - A time-series object store for Cassandra

2013-07-14 Thread Ananth Gundabattula
Thanks for the pointer Aaron. Regards, Ananth On 15-Jul-2013, at 8:30 AM, "aaron morton" mailto:aa...@thelastpickle.com>> wrote: For those following along at home, recently another project in this space was announced https://github.com/deanhiller/databus Cheers - Aaron Morton

too many open files

2013-07-14 Thread Paul Ingalls
I'm running into a problem where instances of my cluster are hitting over 450K open files. Is this normal for a 4 node 1.2.6 cluster with replication factor of 3 and about 50GB of data on each node? I can push the file descriptor limit up, but I plan on having a much larger load so I'm wonderi

Re: too many open files

2013-07-14 Thread Jonathan Haddad
Are you using leveled compaction? If so, what do you have the file size set at? If you're using the defaults, you'll have a ton of really small files. I believe Albert Tobey recommended using 256MB for the table sstable_size_in_mb to avoid this problem. On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Paul In