On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Philippe <watche...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to limit the Memtable sizes on a columnFamily basis on > cassandra 1.1.x ? I have some CF that have very very low throughput and I'd > like to lower the amount of data in memory to keep the Heap size down. > No. If you wanted to, you could simply trigger a flush of these CFs via JMX periodically. In 1.0, there is a mechanism by which these CFs are motivated to flush, when they fragment the commit log too much. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2427 In 2.0, there is a re-introduction of the time based bound for memtables which allows you to automatically flush after a fixed time... but it is still a global setting. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4237 memtable_flush_period_in_ms =Rob