Re: Hundreds compaction a day, is it normal?

2010-10-15 Thread Jonathan Ellis
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Henry Luo wrote: > Thanks for the advice.  Follow up questions: > > a) is 0.6.6 compactable with 0.6.1? Yes, you can upgrade one node at a time and it will particpate w/ the 0.6.1 nodes until they are done too. Just restart w/ 0.6.6, no data migration or commitlo

RE: Hundreds compaction a day, is it normal?

2010-10-14 Thread Henry Luo
...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 4:33 PM To: user Subject: Re: Hundreds compaction a day, is it normal? a) 0.6.1 is ancient, upgrade to 0.6.6 (see http://www.riptano.com/blog/whats-new-cassandra-066 for links to all the improvements since 0.6.1 -- the links to older versions are at the

Re: Hundreds compaction a day, is it normal?

2010-10-14 Thread Jonathan Ellis
a) 0.6.1 is ancient, upgrade to 0.6.6 (see http://www.riptano.com/blog/whats-new-cassandra-066 for links to all the improvements since 0.6.1 -- the links to older versions are at the bottom) b) increase the memtable flush thresholds to reduce the need for compaction (8x the defaults is a decent st

Hundreds compaction a day, is it normal?

2010-10-14 Thread Henry Luo
We have a five node cluster, using replication factor of 3. The application is only sending write requests at this point - we'd like to gain some operation experience with it first before start read from it. We are seeing over a hundred compaction activities on each server, some of them are fo