Cassandra Ubuntu PPA stable release updated to 0.7.0

2011-01-20 Thread Clint Byrum
For anybody using the cassandra ubuntu stable release PPA, it is being updated right now to 0.7.0. This is just a heads up. I'd expect anybody using it to still use all best practices from the cassandra documentation for upgrades, and not just blindly apt-get upgrade. But either way, this is a big

Re: Cassandra automatic startup script on ubuntu

2011-01-20 Thread Clint Byrum
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 17:51 +0100, Sébastien Druon wrote: > Hello! > > > I am using cassandra on a ubuntu machine and installed it from the > binary found on the cassandra home page. > However, I did not find any scripts to start it up at boot time. > > > Where can I find this kind of script? >

Re: [RELEASE] 0.7.0 rc4

2011-01-01 Thread Clint Byrum
On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 12:10 -0600, Eric Evans wrote: > Happy New Years everyone. > > There were just a few issues in RC3 that we didn't feel comfortable > releasing with, so we've cut another. > > For your testing pleasure: 0.7.0 rc4 > The Cassandra Ubuntu experimental PPA has been updated to 0

Re: Memory leak with Sun Java 1.6 ?

2010-12-14 Thread Clint Byrum
On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 11:06 +, Jedd Rashbrooke wrote: > JNA is something I'd read briefly about a while back, but now > it might be something I need to explore further. We're using > Cassandra 0.6.6, and our Ubuntu version offers a packaged > release of libjna 3.2.3-1 .. rumours on the Int

Re: [RELEASE] 0.7.0 rc1

2010-12-06 Thread Clint Byrum
On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 10:30 -0800, Clint Byrum wrote: > On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 17:00 +0100, Olivier Rosello wrote: > > > FYI, 0.7.0~rc1 debs are available in a new PPA for experimental > > > releases: > > > > > > http://launchpad.net/~cassandra-ubuntu/+archiv

Re: [RELEASE] 0.7.0 rc1

2010-12-02 Thread Clint Byrum
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 17:00 +0100, Olivier Rosello wrote: > > FYI, 0.7.0~rc1 debs are available in a new PPA for experimental > > releases: > > > > http://launchpad.net/~cassandra-ubuntu/+archive/experimental > > > > It seems there is a dependancy on libjets3t-java > > Is it really needed ? Thi

Re: [RELEASE] 0.7.0 rc1

2010-11-27 Thread Clint Byrum
FYI, 0.7.0~rc1 debs are available in a new PPA for experimental releases: http://launchpad.net/~cassandra-ubuntu/+archive/experimental When 0.7.0 is officially released they will be available in the stable release PPA here: http://launchpad.net/~cassandra-ubuntu/+archive/stable These are mostly

Re: [RELEASE] 0.6.6

2010-10-15 Thread Clint Byrum
FYI, The cassandra-ubuntu PPA has been updated to 0.6.6: https://launchpad.net/~cassandra-ubuntu/+archive/stable On Oct 14, 2010, at 11:57 AM, Eric Evans wrote: > > We've had plenty of Good Stuff[1] go into the 0.6 branch since the > release of 0.6.5, so I'm pleased to announce the release of 0

Re: using jna.jar "Unknown mlockall error 0"

2010-10-08 Thread Clint Byrum
IIRC, mlockall doesn't work as a non root user on Linux. We had a discussion a while back about using the jvm's support for Huge Pages to get around that limitation a while back, but I don't recall where that went. On Oct 8, 2010, at 2:53 AM, Utku Can Topçu wrote: > Thanks Nicolas, > > I've ju

Re: Buildding a Ubuntu / Debian package for Cassandra

2010-09-16 Thread Clint Byrum
On Sep 16, 2010, at 2:03 PM, Francois Richard wrote: > Thanks Clint, > > I am going to look-up the links below, I am pretty new on the DEB packaging > in general and from what I have seen so far, a lot of the tutorial on the web > are mostly based on classic [ .configure | make | make install

Re: Buildding a Ubuntu / Debian package for Cassandra

2010-09-16 Thread Clint Byrum
Hello Francois, There are already .debs available here: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/DebianPackaging I've also setup a PPA to build the packages on Ubuntu here: https://launchpad.net/~cassandra-ubuntu/+archive/stable Its currently still at v0.6.4, but I am in the process of uploading 0.6.

Re: [RELEASE] 0.6.4

2010-08-03 Thread Clint Byrum
FYI, the Cassandra Ubuntu PPA has been updated to v0.6.4 Please see https://launchpad.net/~cassandra-ubuntu/+archive/stable For more information. On Jul 30, 2010, at 10:02 PM, Eric Evans wrote: > > Another month and the 0.6 branch is a month better. The 0.6.4 release > has a number of import

Re: mmap

2010-07-15 Thread Clint Byrum
On Jul 15, 2010, at 2:52 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Carlos Alvarez wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: >>> The main problem is not the syscall so much as Java insisting on >>> zeroing out any buffer you create, which is a big hit to

Re: Coke Products at Digg?

2010-07-07 Thread Clint Byrum
Either way, they all seem to have decided to ship with a dependency on HFCS instead of Sugar, even though users seem to have a better experience with Sugar, the cost benefit of using HFCS is worth the hit in user satisfaction. On Jul 7, 2010, at 8:55 AM, Miguel Verde wrote: > Dr. Pepper has rec

Re: Cassandra and Thrift on the Server Side

2010-06-28 Thread Clint Byrum
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 13:45 -0700, Marty Greenia wrote: > Would it ever be useful to someday have browser clients access > cassandra servers directly? I imagine that would be the most > compelling scenario to have REST API for. > I think thats an interesting use case for REST. >From what I've se

PPA for Cassandra Ubuntu Packages

2010-06-15 Thread Clint Byrum
nstructions linked to here: https://launchpad.net/~cassandra-ubuntu/+archive/stable As that should help users find these packages quickly. If anybody has feedback please feel free to contact me directly and/or file bugs against the cassandra-packages project. Thanks! -- Clint Byrum Ubuntu Server Team