Re: Question about CL.ZERO

2010-07-12 Thread Aaron Morton
My understanding is that the coordinator will acknowledge the writes faster then they can actually be written. Eventually it will run out of buffer space. see http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/FAQ#slows_down_after_lotso_insertsUsing CL.ONE makes it harder for the clients to flood the cluster with

Re: Question about CL.ZERO

2010-07-12 Thread Benjamin Black
CL.ONE represents the fastest you can sustain. CL.ZERO represents writing to memory on the coordinator, regardless of what the nodes can sustain for durable writes. That is a bad situation, regardless of your durability goals. So, there is no good reason. What you are describing is a

RE: Question about CL.ZERO

2010-07-12 Thread Todd Burruss
. maybe the risk of overloading a server is not worth it. From: Benjamin Black [...@b3k.us] Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 3:50 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: Question about CL.ZERO CL.ONE represents the fastest you can sustain. CL.ZERO

Question about CL.ZERO

2010-07-11 Thread ChingShen
Hi all, Does it mean that the coordinator node always return success to the client at CL.ZERO? But if the coordinator node sends a request to a given node B(RF=1), then B is down, what happened? The coordinator node will write the hint locally? Thanks. Shen

Re: Question about CL.ZERO

2010-07-11 Thread Benjamin Black
And, to be clear, there is no good reason to use CL.ZERO and it can be a serious resource hog on the coordinator. On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 9:21 AM, ChingShen chingshenc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all,   Does it mean that the coordinator node always return success to the client at CL.ZERO? But if