tuning repairs and compaction options

2016-05-06 Thread Reik Schatz
Hi, we are running a 9 node cluster under load. The nodes are running in EC2 on i2.2xlarge instances. Cassandra version is 2.2.4. One node was down yesterday for more than 3 hours. So we manually started an incremental repair this morning via nodetool (anti-entropy repair?) What we can see is that

Updated JMX metrics overview

2015-01-08 Thread Reik Schatz
I am adding some jmx metrics to our monitoring tool. Is there a good overview of all existing jmx metrics and their description? http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Metrics has only a few metrics. In particular I have questions about these now: org.apache.cassandra.db type=StorageProxy TotalHints -

heap usage

2013-02-15 Thread Reik Schatz
Hi, recently we are hitting some OOM: Java heap space, so I was investigating how the heap is used in Cassandra 1.2+ We use the calculated 4G heap. Our cluster is 6 nodes, around 750 GB data and a replication factor of 3. Row cache is disabled. All key cache and memtable settings are left at defa

AssertionError MerkleTree

2013-02-12 Thread Reik Schatz
Hi, we are hitting a AssertionError in MerkleTree as described here in Jira: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3014. We added a comment, however this issue has already been resolved as cannot reproduce. Is someone looking at the comments of resolved issues or is it better to open a n

Re: write count increase after 1.2 update

2013-01-17 Thread Reik Schatz
Cassandra Developer > New Zealand > > @aaronmorton > http://www.thelastpickle.com > > On 16/01/2013, at 6:23 AM, Reik Schatz wrote: > > Hi, we are running a 1.1.6 (datastax) test cluster with 6 nodes. After the > recent 1.2 release we have set up a second cluster - also having 6 nodes >

write count increase after 1.2 update

2013-01-15 Thread Reik Schatz
Hi, we are running a 1.1.6 (datastax) test cluster with 6 nodes. After the recent 1.2 release we have set up a second cluster - also having 6 nodes running 1.2 (datastax). They are now running in parallel. We noticed an increase in the number of writes in our monitoring tool (Datadog). The tool is