Thanks for the replies Jonathan...Couple more clarifications(in bold)
________________________________ From: Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> To: user@cassandra.apache.org Sent: Sun, September 12, 2010 1:47:09 PM Subject: Re: Couple of cache related questions On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 2:56 PM, kannan chandrasekaran <ckanna...@yahoo.com> wrote: > 1) What determines the amount of memory used per schema ignoring the general > overhead to get cassandra up and running? Is it just the size of the caches > for the column Family + the memtable size ? and the bloom filter and index samples from the sstable files. Does that mean that cassandra tries to load the index and filter tables in memory as well, for each sstable in the keyspace? Once the final memtable is flushed to the disk ( assuming no more writes) , does read path also incur the memory size of the memtable for that particular CF ? Does cassandra try to preallocate memory after startup for each schema even if its not used ( not being currently written to or read from) ? I apologize for so many questions,here is what I am trying to do .... I might need more than one schema to be configured and wondering if cassandra will take up memory proportional to the number of schemas "configured" as opposed to the ones "currently in use". This in-turn will help me decide on the maximum number of keyspaces that I can configure within a given heap size. > 2) Is the size of the cache configured ( in terms of absolute numbers or > percentages), an upper bound on the amount of memory that can be allocated > and which grows as more data is filled up in the cache ? no. it's strictly the number of items you give it. so you need to be careful not to make it larger than you have room in the heap. If I understand you correctly then I need to make sure that the sum of sizes of all items in the cache across all the keyspaces + memtable + bloom filter + index samples < Heap space Thanks once again. -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com
