I fully agree with Benedict here.  I would much prefer to keep this sort of
toxic behavior off the ML.  People can link to whatever helpful docs /
blogs they choose.

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 1:12 PM Benedict Elliott Smith <bened...@apache.org>
wrote:

> Come on. This kind of inconsistent 'policing' is not helpful.
>
> By all means, push the *committers* to improve the project docs as is
> happening, and to promote the internal resources over external ones.
>
> But Mark has absolutely no formal connection with the project, and his
> contributions have only been to file a couple of JIRA (all of which have so
> far been ignored by those of his colleagues who *are* active community
> members, I'll note!).  Shaming him for not linking docs that describe
> something *other* than what he was even talking about is crossing the
> line IMO.
>
> Linking to third-party resources is commonplace, the only difference I can
> see here is that these have been called "docs"  by the authors, instead of
> a blog post, and Mark has a DataStax email address.
>
> Would you have reacted this way if Aaron Morton linked a blog post by
> thelastpickle?  Or a random user posted their own resources?  Obviously not.
>
> I was initially all for the ASF endeavour to counteract DataStax' outsized
> influence on the project, and was hopeful you might achieve some positive
> change.  Perhaps you may well still do.  But it seems to me that the ASF
> behaviour is beginning to cross from constructive criticism of the project
> participants to prejudicially hostile behaviour against certain community
> members - and that is unlikely to result in a better project.
>
> You should be treating everyone consistently, in a manner that promotes
> project health.
>
>
>
> On Friday, 9 September 2016, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> On 09/09/2016 16:46, Mark Curtis wrote:
>> > If your partition sizes are over 100MB iirc then you'll normally see
>> > warnings in your system.log, this will outline the partition key, at
>> > least in Cassandra 2.0 and 2.1 as I recall.
>> >
>> > Your best friend here is nodetool cfstats which shows you the
>> > min/mean/max partition sizes for your table. It's quite often used to
>> > pinpoint large partitons on nodes in a cluster.
>> >
>> > More info
>> > here:
>> https://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/2.1/cassandra/tools/toolsCFstats.html
>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> It is *Apache* Cassandra. If you are going to point to docs, please
>> point to the official Apache docs unless there is a very good reason not
>> to.
>>
>> In this case:
>>
>>
>> http://cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest/configuration/cassandra_config_file.html#compaction_large_partition_warning_threshold_mb
>>
>> looks to the place.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > Mark
>> >
>> >
>> > On 9 September 2016 at 02:53, Anshu Vajpayee <anshu.vajpa...@gmail.com
>> > <mailto:anshu.vajpa...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     Is there any way to get partition size for a  partition key ?
>> >
>> >
>>
>>

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