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Jonathan Ellis commented on CASSANDRA-6689: ------------------------------------------- bq. So we can go both ways - remove it completely from the allocation type enum and don't support it or leave it in place and add it to documentation Why are those our only choices? It's the way it is for a reason; for a very few users, it's legitimately useful for running on the Azul JVM or for creating huge numbers of CFs, but for mainstream users it's a Very Bad Idea. > Partially Off Heap Memtables > ---------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-6689 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6689 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Core > Reporter: Benedict > Assignee: Benedict > Labels: performance > Fix For: 2.1 beta2 > > Attachments: CASSANDRA-6689-final-changes.patch, > CASSANDRA-6689-small-changes.patch > > > Move the contents of ByteBuffers off-heap for records written to a memtable. > (See comments for details) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)