On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Terje Marthinussen <tmarthinus...@gmail.com> wrote: > 1. Would it make sense to make full compactions occur a bit more aggressive.
I'd rather reduce the performance impact of being behind, than do more full compactions: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2498 > 2. I > would think the code should be smart enough to either trigger a full > compaction and scrap the current queue, or at least merge some of those > pending tasks into larger ones Not crazy but a queue-rewriter would be nontrivial. For now I'm okay with saying "add capacity until compaction can mostly keep up." (Most people's problem is making compaction LESS aggressive, hence https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2156.) -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com