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Jonathan Ellis commented on CASSANDRA-5850:
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First, 10 days is not arbitrary. 10 was chosen to allow you to target weekly
repairs, plus a safety margin.
For every user who has trouble running repair weekly, there is at least one
user who wishes Cassandra would reclaim his disk space from tombstones faster.
So there is a balance to strike, although people with append-only workloads
tend not to notice the second part.
> change gc_grace_seconds default to 28 days
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> Key: CASSANDRA-5850
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5850
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core
> Affects Versions: 2.0 beta 2
> Reporter: Robert Coli
> Priority: Trivial
> Attachments: gc_grace_seconds_to_2419200_seconds_aka_28_days.patch
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> Current default for gc_grace_seconds is 10 days. Attached patch changes all
> instances of this 10 day default to 28 days.
> Rationale :
> - 10 days is arbitrary, there is nothing special about the current value
> - human societies do not operate on cycles which are a multiple of 10 days,
> they operate on a cycle of 7 day weeks
> - operators must run repair once every gc_grace_seconds, and with typical
> data sizes (and compaction/streaming throttling) this might run for a
> significant fraction of 10 days
> - repair often fails, and detecting and working around that failure might
> also take a significant fraction of 10 days
> - repair is the heaviest operation one can run on a cassandra cluster and
> operators are therefore motivated to run it ~3x less frequently by default
> - the worst case impact is keeping data around for 18 days longer than the
> previous default, and this only occurs in CFs which actually take DELETE
> operation
> - 28 days is an even multiple of 7 days and easily comprehensible as a
> default time in which to schedule repair
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