Re: Lots of deletions results in death by GC

2014-02-01 Thread Nate McCall
What's the output of 'nodetool tpstats' while this is happening? Specifically is Flush Writer "All time blocked" increasing? If so, play around with turning up memtable_flush_writers and memtable_flush_queue_size and see if that helps. On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Robert Wille wrote: > A few

Lots of deletions results in death by GC

2014-02-01 Thread Robert Wille
A few days ago I posted about an issue I¹m having where GC takes a long time (20-30 seconds), and it happens repeatedly and basically no work gets done. I¹ve done further investigation, and I now believe that I know the cause. If I do a lot of deletes, it creates memory pressure until the memtables