Best suitable value for flush_largest_memtables_at

Hi Experts Under massive write load what would be the best value for Cassandra * flush_largest_memtables_at* setting? Yesterday I got an OOM exception in one of our production Cassandra node under heavy write load within 5 minute duration. I change the above setting value to .45 and also change t

Re: Cassandra 1.0.6 multi data center question

Thanks Peter for the replies. Previously it was a typing mistake and it should be "getting". I checked the DC2 (with having replica 0) and noticed that there is no SSTables created. I use java hector sample program to insert data to the keyspace. After I insert a data item, I 1) Login to one of n

Re: SSTable compaction issue in our system

Thanks Aaron for the perfect explanation. Decided to go with automatic compaction. Thanks again. On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:19 AM, aaron morton wrote: > The issue with major / manual compaction is that it creates a one file. > One big old file. > > That one file will not be compacted unless there