Forwarding to the group in case this helps out anyone else.
>>If so, should I set gc_grace_seconds to a lower non-zero value like 1-2 days? Yes. A ----------------- Aaron Morton New Zealand @aaronmorton Co-Founder & Principal Consultant Apache Cassandra Consulting http://www.thelastpickle.com On 23/10/2013, at 1:08 PM, Arindam Barua <aba...@247-inc.com<mailto:aba...@247-inc.com>> wrote: We are not doing deletes, but are setting ttls of 8 days on most of our columns (these are not updates to existing columns). Hence it seems safe to reduce gc_grace_seconds to even 0 from a tombstones getting back to life concern. The motivation is that the lower gc_grace_seconds will help us reclaim tombstoned data quickly, which really adds up otherwise since it will otherwise linger around for an additional 10 days by default. However, I'm concerned about the hints being ttl'd to 0, which would mean hints would be effectively turned off? If so, should I set gc_grace_seconds to a lower non-zero value like 1-2 days? Thanks, Arindam -----Original Message----- From: Aaron Morton [mailto:aa...@thelastpickle.com<http://thelastpickle.com>] Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 11:50 AM To: Arindam Barua Subject: Re: Decommissioned nodes not leaving and Hinted Handoff flood >>I haven't seen documentation for this elsewhere. I'm using Cassandra 1.1.5, >>and the yaml seems to mentions "max_hint_window_in_ms" for that purpose. max_hint_window_in_ms is how long we will collect hints for when a node is down. >>We don't have any deletes in our application, and hence are considering >>making gc_grace_seconds 0. However, if this affects the ttls of hints, then >>we probably don't want it to be 0. If you are not doing deletes you can leave gc_grace_seconds with the default. thanks aaron ----------------- Aaron Morton New Zealand @aaronmorton Co-Founder & Principal Consultant Apache Cassandra Consulting http://www.thelastpickle.com On 23/10/2013, at 6:06 AM, Arindam Barua <aba...@247-inc.com<mailto:aba...@247-inc.com>> wrote: Hi Aaron, If you have a chance, can you please respond to a question I had related to one of your emails from earlier. >>The hints are stored with a TTL that is the gc_grace_seconds for the CF a the >>time the hint is written, so they will eventually be purged by compaction. I haven't seen documentation for this elsewhere. I'm using Cassandra 1.1.5, and the yaml seems to mentions "max_hint_window_in_ms" for that purpose. We don't have any deletes in our application, and hence are considering making gc_grace_seconds 0. However, if this affects the ttls of hints, then we probably don't want it to be 0. Thanks, Arindam [1] hinted_handoff_enabled: true # this defines the maximum amount of time a dead host will have hints # generated. After it has been dead this long, hints will be dropped. max_hint_window_in_ms: 3600000 # one hour From: Arindam Barua [mailto:aba...@247-inc.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 8:32 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: gc_grace_seconds to 0? We don't do any deletes in our cluster, but do set ttls of 8 days on most of the columns. After reading a bunch of earlier threads, I have concluded that I can safely set gc_grace_seconds to 0 and not have to worry about expired columns coming back to life. However, I wanted to know if there is any other downside to setting gc_grace_seconds to 0. Eg. I saw a mention of the ttl of hints set to gc_grace_seconds. Thanks, Arindam
