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Mastering Apache Cassandra 3.x - Third Edition
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Mastering Apache Cassandra 3.x - Third Edition

by Aaron Ploetz, Tejaswi Malepati
October 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
348 pages
10h
English
Packt Publishing
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Garbage collection with Cassandra

High throughput use cases will almost always generate garbage collection. Even clusters with access patterns that tend to be mostly read-serving can see heavy collection activity when their batch loaders run. For a cluster that backs something customer-facing, minimizing garbage collection pause times is imperative.

In the pre-G1GC days, stop-the-world garbage collections were a common pain point for many production clusters. Successfully tuning the CMS (and other collectors) takes a great deal of skill, time for testing, and knowledge of the JVM and its behaviors. The inherent efficiency tuning intrinsic to G1GC tends to simplify the process greatly, which is one of the reasons its use is recommended for ...

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