Re: Cassandra Node Requirements

2011-08-26 Thread Philippe
> > Sort of. There's some fine print, such as the 50% number is only if > you're manually forcing major compactions, which is not recommended, > but a bigger thing to know is that 1.0 will introduce "leveled > compaction" [1] inspired by leveldb. The free space requirement will > then be a small

Re: Cassandra Node Requirements

2011-08-24 Thread Jonathan Ellis
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Jacob, Arun wrote: > we need to cap data size at 50% of total node storage capacity for > compaction Sort of. There's some fine print, such as the 50% number is only if you're manually forcing major compactions, which is not recommended, but a bigger thing to kno

Re: Cassandra Node Requirements

2011-08-24 Thread Jacob, Arun
dra.apache.org>" mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:54:56 -0700 To: "user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>" mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>> Subject: Re: Cassandra Node Requirements On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:54 PM,

Re: Cassandra Node Requirements

2011-08-24 Thread Edward Capriolo
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Jacob, Arun wrote: > I'm trying to determine a node configuration for Cassandra. From what I've > been able to determine from reading around: > > >1. we need to cap data size at 50% of total node storage capacity for >compaction >2. with RF=3, that mea

Cassandra Node Requirements

2011-08-24 Thread Jacob, Arun
I'm trying to determine a node configuration for Cassandra. From what I've been able to determine from reading around: 1. we need to cap data size at 50% of total node storage capacity for compaction 2. with RF=3, that means that I need to effectively assume that I have 1/6th of total stor