On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 4:00 AM, Andrew Cobley <a.e.cob...@dundee.ac.uk>wrote:
> reduce_cache_sizes_at: 0 > reduce_cache_capacity_to: 0 > ... > I'm assuming the blog must be talking about C* prior to version 2.0 > because these settings do not appear in 2.0's .yaml file. > ... > Why where they removed and what's the alternative ? > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3534 " Seems like when these thresholds are reached we are trying to reduce the keycache and Memtable sizes, but in the trunk memtable is moved off-heap hence reducing that will not actually help. " https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=commit;h=e79d9fbf84a35021cafa21d428e08fdd9bee584e They were removed because changes in the nature of the cache made them mostly-useless. There is therefore no alternative. =Rob