> I have a script that needs to set up a schema first before starting up the 
> cassandra node. Is this possible ?
No. 
A node must be running to make a DDL change. 

Cheers

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On 15/09/2012, at 2:05 AM, "Xu, Zaili" <z...@pershing.com> wrote:

> Guys
>  
> I am pretty new to Cassandra. I have a script that needs to set up a schema 
> first before starting up the cassandra node. Is this possible ? Can I create 
> the schema directly on cassandra storage and then when the node starts up it 
> will pick up the schema ?
>  
> Zaili
>  
> From: rohit reddy [mailto:rohit.kommare...@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 9:50 AM
> To: user@cassandra.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Cassandra node going down
>  
> Hi Robin,
>  
> I had checked that. Our disk size is about 800GB, and the total data size is 
> not more than 40GB. Even if all the data is stored in one node, this won't 
> happen. 
>  
> I'll try to see if the disk failed.
>  
> Is this anything to do with VM memory?.. cause this logs suggests that..
> Heap is 0.7515559786053904 full.  You may need to reduce memtable and/or 
> cache sizes.  Cassandra will now flush up to the two largest memtables to 
> free up memory.  Adjust flush_largest_memtables_at threshold in 
> cassandra.yaml if you don't want Cassandra to do this automatically
>  
> But, i'm only testing writes, there are no reads on the cluster. Will the 
> writes require so much memory. A large instance has 7.5GB, so by default 
> cassandra allocates about 3.75 GB for the VM.
>  
>  
>  
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Robin Verlangen <ro...@us2.nl> wrote:
> Hi Robbit,
>  
> I think it's running out of disk space, please verify that (on Linux: df -h ).
> 
> Best regards, 
>  
> Robin Verlangen
> Software engineer
>  
> W http://www.robinverlangen.nl
> E ro...@us2.nl
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> 2012/9/14 rohit reddy <rohit.kommare...@gmail.com>
> Hi,
>  
> I'm facing a problem in Cassandra cluster deployed on EC2 where the node is 
> going down under write load.
>  
> I have configured a cluster of 4 Large EC2 nodes with RF of 2.
> All nodes are instance storage backed. DISK is RAID0 with 800GB
>  
> I'm pumping in write requests at about 4000 writes/sec. One of the node went 
> down under this load. The total data size in each node was not more than 7GB
> Got the following WARN messages in the LOG file...
>  
> 1. setting live ratio to minimum of 1.0 instead of 0.9003153296009601
> 2. Heap is 0.7515559786053904 full.  You may need to reduce memtable and/or 
> cache sizes.  Cassandra will now flush up to the two largest memtables to 
> free up memory.  Adjust flush_largest_memtables_at threshold in 
> cassandra.yaml if you don't want Cassandra to do
> this automatically
> 3. WARN [CompactionExecutor:570] 2012-09-14 11:45:12,024 CompactionTask.java 
> (line 84) insufficient space to compact all requested files
>  
> All cassandra settings are default settings.
> Do i need to tune anything to support this write rate?
>  
> Thanks
> Rohit
>  
>  
>  
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