Re: using more than 50% of disk space

2010-05-27 Thread gabriele renzi
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Sean Bridges wrote: > But doesn't having multiple similarly sized column families mean in-node > compaction does not require 50% of disk?  Looking at compaction manager, > only 1 thread is doing a compaction, so we only need enough free disk space > to compact the

Re: using more than 50% of disk space

2010-05-27 Thread Sean Bridges
But doesn't having multiple similarly sized column families mean in-node compaction does not require 50% of disk? Looking at compaction manager, only 1 thread is doing a compaction, so we only need enough free disk space to compact the largest column family. Sean On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:00 AM

Re: using more than 50% of disk space

2010-05-27 Thread gabriele renzi
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Sean Bridges wrote: > So after CASSANDRA-579, anti compaction won't be done on the source node, > and we can use more than 50% of the disk space if we use multiple column > families? Sorry if I misunderstand, but #579 seems to only solve half of your question, I b

Re: using more than 50% of disk space

2010-05-26 Thread Sean Bridges
for some > background here: I was just about to start working on this one, but it won't > make it in until 0.7. > > > -Original Message- > From: "Sean Bridges" > Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 11:50am > To: user@cassandra.apache.org > Subject: using m

RE: using more than 50% of disk space

2010-05-26 Thread Stu Hood
che.org Subject: using more than 50% of disk space We're investigating Cassandra, and we are looking for a way to get Cassandra use more than 50% of it's data disks. Is this possible? For major compactions, it looks like we can use more than 50% of the disk if we use multiple similarly size

using more than 50% of disk space

2010-05-26 Thread Sean Bridges
We're investigating Cassandra, and we are looking for a way to get Cassandra use more than 50% of it's data disks. Is this possible? For major compactions, it looks like we can use more than 50% of the disk if we use multiple similarly sized column families. If we had 10 column families of the s