Re: Optimal Heap Size Cassandra Configuration

2019-05-21 Thread Alain RODRIGUEZ
Hello, I completely agree with Elliott above on the observation that it is hard to say what *this cluster *needs. Yet, my colleague Jon wrote a small guide on how to tune this in most cases or as a starting point let's say. We often write post were we see repetitive question in the mailing list, t

Re: Optimal Heap Size Cassandra Configuration

2019-05-20 Thread Elliott Sims
It's not really something that can be easily calculated based on write rate, but more something you have to find empirically and adjust periodically. Generally speaking, I'd start by running "nodetool gcstats" or similar and just see what the GC pause stats look like. If it's not pausing much or f

Optimal Heap Size Cassandra Configuration

2019-05-20 Thread Akshay Bhardwaj
Hi Experts, I have a 5 node cluster with 8 core CPU and 32 GiB RAM If I have a write TPS of 5K/s and read TPS of 8K/s, I want to know what is the optimal heap size configuration for each cassandra node. Currently, the heap size is set at 8GB. How can I know if cassandra requires more or less hea