No. Upgraded to 0.8 and monitor the systems more. we schedule a repair
every 24hrs via cron and so far no problems..
On Jun 15, 2011 5:44 PM, "AJ" <a...@dude.podzone.net> wrote:
> Sasha,
>
> Did you ever nail down the cause of this problem?
>
> On 5/31/2011 4:01 AM, Sasha Dolgy wrote:
>> hi everyone,
>>
>> the current nodes i have deployed (4) have all been working fine, with
>> not a lot of data ... more reads than writes at the moment. as i had
>> monitoring disabled, when one node's OS killed the cassandra process
>> due to out of memory problems ... that was fine. 24 hours later,
>> another node, 24 hours later, another node ...until finally, all 4
>> nodes no longer had cassandra running.
>>
>> When all nodes are started fresh, CPU utilization is at about 21% on
>> each box. after 24 hours, this goes up to 32% and then 51% 24 hours
>> later.
>>
>> originally I had thought that this may be a result of 'nodetool
>> repair' not being run consistently ... after adding a cronjob to run
>> every 24 hours (staggered between nodes) the problem of the increasing
>> memory utilization does not resolve.
>>
>> i've read the operations page and also the
>> http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/MemtableThresholds page. i am
>> running defaults and 0.7.6-02 ...
>>
>> what are the best places to start in terms of finding why this is
>> happening? CF design / usage? 'nodetool cfstats' gives me some good
>> info ... and i've already implemented some changes to one CF based on
>> how it had ballooned (too many rows versus not enough columns)
>>
>> suggestions appreciated
>>
>
