On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:56:25 -0600 Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote:
JE> Are you swapping? JE> http://spyced.blogspot.com/2010/01/linux-performance-basics.html JE> otherwise there's something wrong w/ your vm (?), disk i/o doesn't JE> block incoming writes in cassandra If the user has enough memory, can tmpfs (/tmp for example) be used for the data and commitlog to produce results without disk I/O (so it can be determined if disk I/O is the problem)? I've done this with other applications but don't know if it would work with Cassandra. Ted
