> We have noticed that a cluster we upgraded to 1.1.6 (from 1.0.*) still has a > single large (~4GB) row in system.Migrations on each cluster node. There is some code in there to drop that CF at startup, but I’m not sure on the requirements for it to run. if the time stamps have not been updated in a while copy them out of the way and restart.
> We are also seeing heap pressure / Full GC issues when we do schema updates > to this cluster How much memory does the machine have and how is the JVM configured ? On pre 1.1 that is often a result of memory pressure from the bloom filters and compression meta data being on the JVM heap. Do you have a lot (i.e. > 500Million ) rows per node ? Check how small CMS can get the heap, it may be the case that it just cannot reduce it further. As a work around you can: increase the heap, increase bloom_filter_fp_chance (per cf) and index_interval (yaml). My talk called “In case of emergency break glass” at the summit in SF this year talks about this http://thelastpickle.com/speaking/2013/06/11/Speaking-Cassandra-Summit-SF-2013.html Long term moving to 1.2 will help. Hope that helps. ----------------- Aaron Morton New Zealand @aaronmorton Co-Founder & Principal Consultant Apache Cassandra Consulting http://www.thelastpickle.com On 23/11/2013, at 10:35 am, Andrew Cooper <andrew.coo...@nisc.coop> wrote: > We have noticed that a cluster we upgraded to 1.1.6 (from 1.0.*) still has a > single large (~4GB) row in system.Migrations on each cluster node. We are > also seeing heap pressure / Full GC issues when we do schema updates to this > cluster. If the two are related, is it possible to somehow remove/truncate > the system.Migrations CF? If I understand correctly, version 1.1 no longer > uses this CF, instead using the system.schema_* CF's. We have multiple > clusters and clusters which were built from scratch at version 1.1 or 1.2 do > no have data in system.Migrations. > > I would appreciate any advice and I can provide more details if needed. > > -Andrew > > Andrew Cooper > National Information Solutions Cooperative® > 3201 Nygren Drive NW > Mandan, ND 58554 > + e-mail: andrew.coo...@nisc.coop > ( phone: 866.999.6472 ext 6824 > ( direct: 701-667-6824 >
