On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Donald Smith <
donald.sm...@audiencescience.com> wrote:
> *Is it reasonable to do “nodetool disableautocompaction” on the
> bootstrapping node? Should that be the default???*
>
There's various current/recent JIRA about compaction vs. bootstrapping,
esp. wrt LCS c
"*Is it reasonable to do “nodetool disableautocompaction” on the
bootstrapping node?*" --> It's a tricky question
By default compaction is here to guarantee that you don't have too many
small SSTables hurting the read path. Now in production I've seen some
people disabling temporarily auto compact
Looking at the output of "nodetool netstats" I see that the bootstrapping nodes
pulling from only two of the nine nodes currently in the datacenter. That
surprises me: I'd think the vnodes it pulls from would be randomly spread
across the existing nodes. We're using Cassandra 2.0.11 with 256
