@Jeff Jirsa thanks the memtable_* keys were the actual determining factor for my memtable flushes, they are what I needed to play with.
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Ken Hancock <ken.hanc...@schange.com> wrote: > Or if you're doing a high volume of writes, then your flushed file size > may be completely determined by other CFs that have consumed the commitlog > size, forcing any memtables whose commitlog is being delete to be forced to > disk. > > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Jeff Jirsa <jeff.ji...@crowdstrike.com> > wrote: > >> It’s worth mentioning that initial flushed file size is typically >> determined by memtable_cleanup_threshold and the memtable space options >> (memtable_heap_space_in_mb, memtable_offheap_space_in_mb, depending on >> memtable_allocation_type) >> >> >> >> From: Nate McCall >> Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org" >> Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 11:45 AM >> To: Cassandra Users >> Subject: Re: memtable flush size with LCS >> >> >> do you mean that this property is ignored at memtable flush time, and so >>> memtables are already allowed to be much larger than sstable_size_in_mb? >>> >> >> Yes, 'sstable_size_in_mb' plays no part in the flush process. Flushing >> is based on solely on runtime activity and the file size is determined by >> whatever was in the memtable at that time. >> >> >> >> -- >> ----------------- >> Nate McCall >> Austin, TX >> @zznate >> >> Co-Founder & Sr. Technical Consultant >> Apache Cassandra Consulting >> http://www.thelastpickle.com >> > > > > > -- Dan Kinder Senior Software Engineer Turnitin – www.turnitin.com dkin...@turnitin.com