Re: Best practice for adding new nodes to ring

2010-10-26 Thread Gary Dusbabek
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 14:56, Edward Capriolo wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Stu Hood wrote: >> While the "adding virtual tokens/nodes to Cassandra" discussion is a good >> one, there are a few factors that might delay (or remove?) the necessity of >> adding that complexity: >> >> *

Re: Best practice for adding new nodes to ring

2010-10-26 Thread Edward Capriolo
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Stu Hood wrote: > While the "adding virtual tokens/nodes to Cassandra" discussion is a good > one, there are a few factors that might delay (or remove?) the necessity of > adding that complexity: > > * In Cassandra 0.7, removing load from a node is fairly cheap:

RE: Best practice for adding new nodes to ring

2010-10-26 Thread Stu Hood
While the "adding virtual tokens/nodes to Cassandra" discussion is a good one, there are a few factors that might delay (or remove?) the necessity of adding that complexity: * In Cassandra 0.7, removing load from a node is fairly cheap: a bounded number of reads are used to determine which port