Re: Cassandra SSTable deletion/load reporting question

2013-10-25 Thread Jasdeep Hundal
wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Jasdeep Hundal wrote: > >> >> After performing a large set of deletes on our cluster, a few hundred >> gigabytes work (essentially cleaning out nearly all old data), we noticed >> that nodetool reported about the same lo

Cassandra SSTable deletion/load reporting question

2013-10-25 Thread Jasdeep Hundal
Does anyone have a good explanation or pointers to docs for understanding how Cassandra decides to remove SSTables from disk? After performing a large set of deletes on our cluster, a few hundred gigabytes work (essentially cleaning out nearly all old data), we noticed that nodetool reported about

Re: What's difference between node tool removenode & decommission in 1.2.x

2013-08-13 Thread Jasdeep Hundal
Decommission moves the data from the node being decommissioned to the other nodes that will now have ownership over the data. Removenode will stream the data that node is responsible for from other replicas, and AFAIK is generally used when a node is offline and cannot be brought back up. I think

Re: Waiting on read repair?

2013-03-19 Thread Jasdeep Hundal
gt; > > This could be that IO is not keeping up, it's unlikely to be a switch lock > issue if you only have a 4 CF's. Also have you checked for GC messages in > the C* logs ? > > Cheers > > > --------- > Aaron Morton > Freelance Cassandra Consultan

Re: Waiting on read repair?

2013-03-18 Thread Jasdeep Hundal
/aaronmorton/apachecon-nafeb2013 > > Cheers > > - > Aaron Morton > Freelance Cassandra Consultant > New Zealand > > @aaronmorton > http://www.thelastpickle.com > > On 16/03/2013, at 12:21 PM, Jasdeep Hundal wrote: > > I've got a coupl

Waiting on read repair?

2013-03-15 Thread Jasdeep Hundal
I've got a couple of questions related issues I'm encountering using Cassandra under a heavy write load: 1. With a ConsistencyLevel of quorum, does FBUtilities.waitForFutures() wait for read repair to complete before returning? 2. When read repair applies a mutation, it needs to obtain a lock for