Re: Recurring actions with 4 hour interval

2013-12-10 Thread Nate McCall
Michael has a good point about the system tables - particularly hints and batching (though neither should be a real tax unless you have bigger issues). If you have a monitoring system, add in the flush counters for these and other higher traffic tables and see if there is a correlation at the four

Re: Recurring actions with 4 hour interval

2013-12-10 Thread Laing, Michael
2.0.3: system tables have a 1 hour memtable_flush_period which I have observed to trigger compaction on the 4 hour mark. Going by memory tho... -ml On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Andre Sprenger wrote: > As far as I know there is nothing hard coded in Cassandra that kicks in > every 4 hours. T

Re: Recurring actions with 4 hour interval

2013-12-10 Thread Andre Sprenger
As far as I know there is nothing hard coded in Cassandra that kicks in every 4 hours. Turn on GC logging, maybe dump the output of jstats to a file and correlate this data with the Cassandra logs. Cassandra logs are pretty good in telling you what is going on. 2013/12/10 Joel Samuelsson > Hell

Recurring actions with 4 hour interval

2013-12-10 Thread Joel Samuelsson
Hello, We've been having a lot of problems with extremely long GC (and still do) which I've asked about several times on this list (I can find links to those discussions if anyone is interested). We noticed a pattern that the GC pauses may be related to something happening every 4 hours. Is there