You're supposed to request a few hundred or thousand columns per call,
then if you need more request the next set using the start parameter.
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Lucas Di Pentima
<lu...@di-pentima.com.ar> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm playing with Cassandra 0.6.0-rc1 on a MacOSX, with the 'cassandra' ruby
> gem.
>
> I load some test data to it and I was trying the gem's get() API when I
> realized that if I call it some way like this:
>
> db.get('SomeSCFName', 'SomeKey')
>
> It returned me only 100 subcolumns when 'SomeKey' has approx 150000
> subcolumns. Next I tried calling get() like this:
>
> db.get('SomeSFCName', 'SomeKey', :count => N)
>
> My problem is that when N is a number higher than 50000 (approximately), I
> get the following error:
>
> Thrift::TransportException: Socket: Timed out reading 4096 bytes from
> 127.0.0.1:9160
>
> The same happens if I call:
>
> db.count_columns('SomeSCFName', 'SomeKey')
>
> ...on the same 'SomeKey', but if I call count_columns() with some other key
> that holds less columns, it works without problems.
>
> My setup is:
>
> * Cassandra 0.6.0-rc1 downloaded from the website, with all default
> configurations
> * Ruby 1.8.7
> * Cassandra gem 0.8.1
> * MacOSX 1.6.3
>
> Any help will be appreciated!
>
> --
> Lucas Di Pentima - Santa Fe, Argentina
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