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Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 21:19:54 -0000
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Subject: [Cassandra Wiki] Update of "MemtableThresholds" by EricEvans

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The following page has been changed by EricEvans:
http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/MemtableThresholds

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  in check, and memory usage in general with limits.
  
  == MemtableSizeInMB ==
+ FIXME: finish this section!
  
  == MemtableObjectCountInMillions ==
+ FIXME: finish this section!
  
  == Using Jconsole To Optimize Thresholds ==
  Cassandra's column-family mbeans have a number of attributes that can
@@ -24, +26 @@

  you will need to connect remotely (the default startup scripts for
  Cassandra cause the VM to listen on port 8080).
  
- [connect.png]
+ attachment:jconsole_connect.png
  
- Once connected, select the ''MBeans'' tab, expand the ''org.apache.cassandra.db''
+ Once connected, select the ''MBeans'' tab, expand the 
- section, and finally one of your column families.
+ ''org.apache.cassandra.db'' section, and finally one of your column families.
  
- The interesting attributes here are:
+ There are three interesting attributes here.
  
-  * ''!MemtableColumnsCount:''
-  * ''!MemtableDataSize:''
-  * ''!MemtableSwitchCount:''
+  1. ''!MemtableColumnsCount'', representing the total number of column entries in this table. If you store 100 rows that each have 100 columns, expect to see this value increase by 10,000.
+  1. ''!MemtableDataSize'', which is used to determine the total size of stored data. This is the sum of all the values stored and does not account for Memtable overhead, (i.e. it's not indicative of the actual memory used by the Memtable).
+  1. Finally there is ''!MemtableSwitchCount'' which increases by one each time a column family flushes its Memtable to disk.
  
- [attributes.png]
+ ''Note: You'll need to manually mash the `Refresh` button to update the values.''
  
- [operations.png]
+ attachment:jconsole_attributes.png
  
+ It is also possible to schedule an immediate flush using the `forceFlush()` operation.
+ 
+ attachment:jconsole_operations.png
+