https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1276
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 09:05 -0700, Todd Burruss wrote: > From: Jonathan Ellis [jbel...@gmail.com] > Received: 7/12/10 9:15 PM > To: user@cassandra.apache.org [u...@cassandra.apache.org] > Subject: Re: GCGraceSeconds per ColumnFamily/Keyspace > > Probably. Can you open a ticket? > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Todd Burruss <bburr...@real.com> > wrote: > > Is it possible to get this feature in 0.7? > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jonathan Ellis [jbel...@gmail.com] > > Received: 7/12/10 5:06 PM > > To: user@cassandra.apache.org [u...@cassandra.apache.org] > > Subject: Re: GCGraceSeconds per ColumnFamily/Keyspace > > > > GCGS per CF sounds totally reasonable to me. > > > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Todd Burruss <bburr...@real.com> > wrote: > >> I have two CFs in my keyspace. one i care about allowing a good > amount of > >> time for tombstones to propagate (GCGraceSeconds large) ... but the > other i > >> couldn't care and in fact i want them gone ASAP so i don't iterate > over > >> them. has any thought been given to making this setting per > Keyspace or per > >> ColumnFamily? > >> > >> my scenario is that i add columns to rows in one CF, UserData, with > >> logging data or activity, but we only want to keep, say 5000 > columns per > >> user. So i also store the user's ID in another CF, > PruneCollection, and > >> periodically iterate over it using the IDs found in PruneCollection > to > >> "prune" the columns in UserData - and then immediately delete the > ID from > >> PruneCollection. if the code is adding, say 50 IDs per second to > >> PruneCollection then the number of deleted keys starts to build up, > forcing > >> my iterator to skip over large amounts of deleted keys. With a > small > >> GCGraceSeconds these keys are removed nicely, but i can't do that > because it > >> affects the tombstones in UserData as well, which need to be > propagated. > >> > >> thoughts?