Re: RE: Very new user needs some troubleshooting pointers

2010-04-11 Thread Eric Evans
On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 11:28 -0500, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > The jit on debian may take longer to warm up by default. Also, the Debian package will pull in OpenJDK by default, but there is nothing to stop you from using the Sun JVM (which I assume is what's in use on the other machines). It is even

Re: RE: Very new user needs some troubleshooting pointers

2010-04-09 Thread Heath Oderman
Will do, thanks for the advice. :) On Apr 9, 2010 12:28 PM, "Jonathan Ellis" wrote: The jit on debian may take longer to warm up by default. Do 100k ops first before benchmarking. Benchmark with multiple threads. And use a known benchmark first like py_stress. On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:23 A

Re: RE: Very new user needs some troubleshooting pointers

2010-04-09 Thread Jonathan Ellis
, then a 5 byte column name, something that would seem to be > right up Cassandra’s alley. > > > > Right now I’m reworking my test to dump it into MySQL on the same machines, > so I can compare the two for speed, because either I’ve got crap for > hardware, or there is something ro

RE: RE: Very new user needs some troubleshooting pointers

2010-04-09 Thread Mark Jones
user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: RE: Very new user needs some troubleshooting pointers What's interesting for my case is that I put a timer around the thrift method to insert_batch Every iteration of that call against debian (any hardware, same network or in amazon cloud with windows machine

Re: RE: Very new user needs some troubleshooting pointers

2010-04-09 Thread Heath Oderman
e machines, so I can compare the two for speed, because either I’ve got crap for hardware, or there is something rotten in Denmark. *From:* Heath Oderman [mailto:he...@526valley.com] *Sent:* Friday, April 09, 2010 10:40 AM *To:* user@cassandra.apache.org *Subject:* Re: Very new user needs some trou

Re: Very new user needs some troubleshooting pointers

2010-04-09 Thread Jonathan Ellis
be > right up Cassandra’s alley. > > > > Right now I’m reworking my test to dump it into MySQL on the same machines, > so I can compare the two for speed, because either I’ve got crap for > hardware, or there is something rotten in Denmark. > > > > From: Heath Ode

RE: Very new user needs some troubleshooting pointers

2010-04-09 Thread Mark Jones
k. From: Heath Oderman [mailto:he...@526valley.com] Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 10:40 AM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: Very new user needs some troubleshooting pointers Thanks for the reply Jonathan! I started with multi threaded tests, but when my performance was so much s

Re: Very new user needs some troubleshooting pointers

2010-04-09 Thread Heath Oderman
Thanks for the reply Jonathan! I started with multi threaded tests, but when my performance was so much slower than my buddy's I switched to one to try to isolate and identify the differences. I got tunnel vision and kept on with the one thread tests. I'll modify the tests and try again. Thanks

Re: Very new user needs some troubleshooting pointers

2010-04-09 Thread Jonathan Ellis
A single-threaded test is meaningless. You need a multithreaded (or multiprocess) benchmark like the one in contrib/py_stress. Picture worth 1000 words: http://spyced.blogspot.com/2010/01/cassandra-05.html On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Heath Oderman wrote: > Hi All, > I'm brand new to Cassand

Very new user needs some troubleshooting pointers

2010-04-08 Thread Heath Oderman
Hi All, I'm brand new to Cassandra and know absolutely nothing, so please forgive me in advance. A friend and I have each setup a few Cassandra stand alone nodes, completely default. His: Mac OSX Snow Leopard Mac Book Pro Intel Duo Core 4GB Ram 5400 rpm disk Mine: debian 5.x