On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Mason Hale <ma...@onespot.com> wrote: > I'm curious of what performance benefit is actually being gained from this > optimization.
It's really pretty easy to saturate gigabit ethernet with a Cassandra cluster. Mulitplying traffic by roughly RF is definitely a lose. > Sorry to keep beating this horse, but we're regularly being alerted to > performance issues any time a mini-compaction occurs on any node in our > cluster. I'm fishing for a quick and easy way to prevent this from > happening. I believe Brandon is in the process of suggesting enabling compaction de-prioritization to Scott (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1181). -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com