On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 6:09 AM, Terje Marthinussen <tmarthinus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Of course I talked too soon. > I saw a corrupted commitlog some days back after killing cassandra and I > just came across a committed hints file after a cluster restart for some > config changes :( > Will look into that. > Otherwise, not defaults, but close. > The dataset is fed from scratch so yes, memtable_total_space is there. > > Some option tuning here and there and a few extra GC options and a > relatively large patch which makes more compact serialization (this may help > a bit...) > Most of the tuning dates back to cassandra 0.6/0.7. It could be an > interesting experiment to see if things got worse without them on 0.8. > Hopefully I can submit the serialization patch soon.
You might want to watch https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-674 which should be ready for testing soon. -ryan