Re: munin is great for monitoring Cassandra

2010-06-17 Thread Mike Subelsky
T On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Peter Schuller wrote: >> drive on an EBS volume).  Does that pattern look bad or is it >> relatively normal? If it's not normal, any advice for what I should >> change to get better performance? > > Assuming you're running with the default cassandra VM options o

Re: munin is great for monitoring Cassandra

2010-06-17 Thread Jason Dixon
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 04:01:41PM -0400, Mike Subelsky wrote: > I just started munin to monitor the performance of my cluster which is > working great. I noticed the attached pattern for JVM heap size - > lots of peaks and valleys, which looks like GC is firing pretty > frequently. I don't have

Re: munin is great for monitoring Cassandra

2010-06-17 Thread Peter Schuller
> drive on an EBS volume).  Does that pattern look bad or is it > relatively normal? If it's not normal, any advice for what I should > change to get better performance? Assuming you're running with the default cassandra VM options or similar (mainly, the CMS GC), the graph looks fairly normal to

Re: munin is great for monitoring Cassandra

2010-06-17 Thread Jonathan Ellis
That looks pretty normal to me. The JVM doesn't do a full GC until the old gen crosses a (dynamic, defaults to about 70% of heap) threshold. On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Mike Subelsky wrote: > I just started munin to monitor the performance of my cluster which is > working great.  I noticed