Re: Disabling Swap for Cassandra

2020-04-16 Thread J. D. Jordan
Cassandra attempts to lock the heap at startup, but all the memory allocated after startup is not locked. So you do want to make sure the allowed locked memory is large. Disabling or vastly dialing down swappiness is a best practice for all server software, not just Cassandra, so you should

Re: GDPR, Right to Be Forgotten, and Cassandra

2018-02-09 Thread J. D. Jordan
The times I have run into similar requirements from legislation or standards the fact that SELECT no longer returns the data is enough for all auditors I have worked with. Otherwise you get down into screwy requirements of needing to zero out all unused sectors on your disks to actually remove

Re: Strange delay in query

2012-11-13 Thread J. D. Jordan
Correct On Nov 13, 2012, at 5:21 AM, André Cruz andre.c...@co.sapo.pt wrote: On Nov 13, 2012, at 8:54 AM, aaron morton aa...@thelastpickle.com wrote: I don't think that statement is accurate. Which part ? Probably this part: After running a major compaction, automatic minor compactions