@ben, thx, we will be deploying 2.2.1 of DSE soon and will try to setup a traffic sampling node so we can test leveled compaction.
we essentially keep a rolling window of data written once. it is written, then after N days it is deleted, so it seems that leveled compaction should help On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:53 AM, B. Todd Burruss <bto...@gmail.com> wrote: > thanks for the links! i had forgotten about live sampling > > On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Brandon Williams <dri...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Aaron Turner <synfina...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> There are also ways to bring up a test node and just run Level Compaction on >>> that. Wish I had a URL handy, but hopefully someone else can find it. >> >> This rather handsome fellow wrote a blog about it: >> http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/whats-new-in-cassandra-1-1-live-traffic-sampling >> >> -Brandon