On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Hiller, Dean <dean.hil...@nrel.gov> wrote: > QUESTION: I am assuming 10 compactions should be enough to put enough load > on the disk/cpu/ram etc. etc. or do you think I should go with 100CF's. > 98% of our data is all in this one CF.
Compaction can only really efficiently multi-thread with some relatively tight relationship to the number of cores available... my hunch would be that the number of shards you are looking in PlayObjectRockin'Mapper (TM) is closer to 10 than 100. =Rob
