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Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 14:09:42 -0400
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Subject: Re: Time delay question
From: Keith Turner <keith@deenlo.com>
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Once the batch writer flushes, the data is available for read by the
batch scanner.   On the server side data is read from memory and
files.

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:53 PM,  <Bob.Thorman@l-3com.com> wrote:
> I have a set of actors that are doing batchWriters and another set doing
> batchScanner(s) and I'm getting questions from my users about the time
> delay between them.  So my question is, what are all the tunable
> parameters between writes and reads?
>
> Do I have the following facts correct?
>
> BatchWriters have a time value for flushing to memory cache
> Minor compaction has its time frequency for flushing to WALogs
> Major compaction has its time frequency for flushing to disc
>
> So where all does a batchScanner get its data from?
>
> Any/all help is appreciated.
>
>
> Bob Thorman
> Engineering Fellow
> L-3 Communications, ComCept
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