Re: Restoring keyspace using snapshots

2014-01-30 Thread John Anderstedt
In this case I would go on with the nodetool refresh, simply because you use the machines in a more effective way.(copy data from one node to another, each node cleans/refresh the data itself) if the clustersetup is the same with nodes/tokens there’s no need to copy all the data to one point an

Re: Cassandra Performance Testing

2014-01-24 Thread John Anderstedt
It sounds to me that the limitation in this setup is the disks. if it’s in a mirror the cost for write’s is the dubble. If you have the flatfile and the db on the same disk there will be a lot of io wait. There is also a question of diskspace and fragmentation, if the flat file occupies 1,2TB o

cassandra 2.0.4 Unable to initialize MemoryMeter

2014-01-24 Thread John Anderstedt
H, I've upgraded cassandra from 1.2.13 to 2.0.4 on a cluster of 5 nodes. when i run nodetool -h localhost ring I see this errormessage in the end: ERROR 10:33:28,324 Unable to initialize MemoryMeter (jamm not specified as javaagent). This means Cassandra will be unable to measure object sizes