Re: backlogging and scaling

2010-06-15 Thread Jonathan Ellis
There have been a couple proposals to split the sstables a node maintains into several pieces, one for each of a group of sub-ranges that the nodes divides its token range into. (This could be done with or without explicitly giving each node multiple Tokens, IMO.) This would be a substantial chan

backlogging and scaling

2010-06-08 Thread Jonathan Shook
I'm curious if there are any efforts ongoing to amortize the background tasks in Cassandra over time? Specifically, the cost of compaction and AE, rebalancing, etc seems to be a problem for some users when they are expecting more steady-state performance. While this may sometimes be the result of a