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Radim Kolar commented on CASSANDRA-5727: ---------------------------------------- Leveldb is using 2MB by default. Real problem is naive leveldb implementation in cassandra. > Evaluate default LCS sstable size > --------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-5727 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5727 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Task > Components: Core > Reporter: Jonathan Ellis > Assignee: Daniel Meyer > > What we're not sure about is the effect on compaction efficiency -- > larger files mean that each level contains more data, so reads will > have to touch less sstables, but we're also compacting less unchanged > data when we merge forward. > So the question is, how big can we make the sstables to get the benefits of > the > first effect, before the second effect starts to dominate? -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira