OK, cool, looking forward to your results.
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Ilya Maykov <ivmay...@gmail.com> wrote: > Right, I meant 4GB heap vs. the standard 1GB. And all other options in > cassandra.in.sh at their defaults. > > Sorry I am a bit new to JVM tuning, and very new to Cassandra :) > > -- Ilya > > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Benjamin Black <b...@b3k.us> wrote: >> I am specifically suggesting you NOT use a heap that large with your >> 8GB machines. Please test with 4GB first. >> >> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Ilya Maykov <ivmay...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> That does sound similar. It's possible that the difference I'm seeing >>> between ConsistencyLevel.ZERO and ConsistencyLevel.ALL is simply due >>> to the fact that using ALL slows down the writers enough that the GC >>> can keep up. I could do a test with multiple clients writing at ALL in >>> parallel tomorrow. If there are still no problems writing at ALL even >>> with extra load from additional clients, that might point to problems >>> in how async writes are handled vs. sync writes. >>> >>> I will also do some profiling of the server processes with both ZERO >>> and ALL writer behaviors and report back. >>> >>> RE: JVM_OPTS, I will try running with the "more sane" options (but a >>> larger heap) as well. >>> >>> -- Ilya >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Rob Coli <rc...@digg.com> wrote: >>>> On 4/5/10 11:48 PM, Ilya Maykov wrote: >>>>> >>>>> No, the disks on all nodes have about 750GB free space. Also as >>>>> mentioned in my follow-up email, writing with ConsistencyLevel.ALL >>>>> makes the slowdowns / crashes go away. >>>> >>>> I am not sure if the above is consistent with the cause of #896, but the >>>> other symptoms ("I inserted a bunch of data really fast via Thrift and GC >>>> melted my machine!") sound like it.. >>>> >>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-896 >>>> >>>> =Rob >>>> >>> >> >