Re: Data Distribution / Replication

2010-08-13 Thread Oleg Anastasjev
Benjamin Black b3k.us> writes: > > 3. I waited for the data to replicate, which didn't happen. > > Correct, you need to run nodetool repair because the nodes were not > present when the writes came in. You can also use a higher > consistency level to force read repair before returning data, whi

Re: Cassandra Scaling Questions

2010-08-05 Thread Oleg Anastasjev
> > 1.) What have you found to be the best ratio of Cassandra row cache to memory free on the system for filesystem cache?  Are you tuning it like an RDBMS so Cassandra has the vast majority of the RAM in the system or are you letting the filesystem cache do some of the work? This depends on your

Re: cassandra summit, making videos?

2010-07-28 Thread Oleg Anastasjev
uncle mantis gmail.com> writes: > Why is everything always in California or Las Vegas? Because you can convince your employer to pay your vacation near ocean or slots, i believe ;-)

Node failback scenario: How can clients be sure hinted handoff is completed ?

2010-07-16 Thread Oleg Anastasjev
Hello all, I currently working on testing of various HA scenarios on small cassandra cluster of 8 nodes, RF=3. I have a test environment with thrift clients doing double writes of all operations to cassandra cluster and reliable storage and cross checking read results. Reads are performed with CL=

Re: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Map failed

2010-06-22 Thread Oleg Anastasjev
> Daniel: >   > Thanks. That thread helped me solve my problem. >   > I was able to run a 700k MySQL record import without a single memory error. >   > I changed the following sections in storage-conf.xml to fix the OutofMemory errors: >   >  standard > batch  >  1 Going to standard mode is not

Re: bulk loading

2010-06-21 Thread Oleg Anastasjev
Torsten Curdt vafer.org> writes: > > First I tried with my one "cassandra -f" instance then I saw this > requires a separate IP. (Why?) This is because your import program becomes a special member of cassandra cluster to be able to speak internal protocol. And each memboer of cassandra cluster

Re: Load balancing

2010-06-18 Thread Oleg Anastasjev
Mubarak Seyed apple.com> writes: > > - How does client (application) connect to cassandra cluster? Is it always for one node (and thrift can get ring info) and send the request to connected node This depends on client library you use. Any cassandra node can accept client connections and forward

Re: Some questions about using Cassandra

2010-06-16 Thread Oleg Anastasjev
Anthony Ikeda cardlink.com.au> writes: > One factor I need to consider is our Business > Intelligence platform that will need to use the data stored for reporting > purposes. > >   > > We are looking at using Cassandra for our real-time layer for > Active-Active data centre use and perhaps have

Re: Cassandra training Jun 18 in SF

2010-06-04 Thread Oleg Anastasjev
Jonathan Ellis gmail.com> writes: > > This will be Riptano's 6th training session (including the four we've > done that were on-site with a specific customer), and in my humble > opinion the material's really solid at this point. > > We are actively working on lining up other locations. > Do y

Re: Nodes dropping out of cluster due to GC

2010-06-02 Thread Oleg Anastasjev
> > Has anyone experienced this sort of problem? It would be great to hear from > anyone who has had experience with this sort of issue and/or suggestions for > how to deal with it. > > Thanks, Eric Yes, i did. Symptoms you described point to concurrent GC FAILURE. During this failure concurr

Re: Administration Memory for Noobs. (GC for ConcurrentMarkSweep ?)

2010-06-01 Thread Oleg Anastasjev
xavier manach tekio.org> writes: > > Hi.  I search informations for basic tunning of memory in Cassandra.My situation :  I started to test larges imports of data in Cassandra 6.1.My first import worked fine : 100 Millions row in 2 hours ~ around 1 insert row by seconds > My second is slower

Re: Cassandra's bad behavior on disk failure

2010-04-21 Thread Oleg Anastasjev
> > Ideally I think we'd like to leave the node up to serve reads, if a > disk is erroring out on writes but still read-able. In my experience > this is very common when a disk first begins to fail, as well as in > the "disk is full" case where there is nothing actually wrong with the > disk per

Cassandra's bad behavior on disk failure

2010-04-21 Thread Oleg Anastasjev
Hello, I am testing how cassandra behaves on single node disk failures to know what to expect when things go bad. I had a cluster of 4 cassandra nodes, stress loaded it with client and made 2 tests: 1. emulated disk failure of /data volume on read only stress test 2. emulated disk failure of /comm

Re: Cassandra cluster does not tolerate single node failure good

2010-04-07 Thread Oleg Anastasjev
Jonathan Ellis gmail.com> writes: > > Isn't this the same question I just answered? > Umm, I am not sure. I looked over last 3 days of your replies and did not found my case. Could you gimme some clue plz ?

Cassandra cluster does not tolerate single node failure good

2010-04-07 Thread Oleg Anastasjev
Hello, I am doing some tests of cassandra clsuter behavior on several failure scenarios. And i am stuck with the very 1st test - what happens, if 1 node of cluster becomes unavailable. I have 4 4gb nodes loaded with write mostly test. Replication Factor is 2. Normally it works at the rate about 12

Cassandra cluster does not tolerate single node failure

2010-04-07 Thread Oleg Anastasjev
Hello, I am doing some tests of cassandra clsuter behavior on several failure scenarios. And i am stuck woith the very 1st test - what happens, if 1 node of cluster becomes unavailable. I have 4 4gb nodes loaded with write mostly test. Normally it works at the rate about 12000 ops/second. Replica