I dont seem to have any caching enabled when checking in Opscenter or cfstats. Im running Cassandra 1.1.7 with Solandra on Debian. I have set the required global options in cassandra.yaml:
key_cache_size_in_mb: 800
key_cache_save_period: 14400
row_cache_size_in_mb: 800
row_cache_save_period: 15400
row_cache_provider: SerializingCacheProvider
Column Families were created as follows:
create column family example
with column_type = 'Standard'
and comparator = 'BytesType'
and default_validation_class = 'BytesType'
and key_validation_class = 'BytesType'
and read_repair_chance = 1.0
and dclocal_read_repair_chance = 0.0
and gc_grace = 864000
and min_compaction_threshold = 4
and max_compaction_threshold = 32
and replicate_on_write = true
and compaction_strategy = 'org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.SizeTieredCompactionStrategy'
and caching = 'ALL';
Opscenter shows no data available on caching graphs and CFSTATS doesn't show any cache related fields:
Column Family: charsets
SSTable count: 1
Space used (live): 5558
Space used (total): 5558
Number of Keys (estimate): 128
Memtable Columns Count: 0
Memtable Data Size: 0
Memtable Switch Count: 0
Read Count: 61381
Read Latency: 0.123 ms.
Write Count: 0
Write Latency: NaN ms.
Pending Tasks: 0
Bloom Filter False Postives: 0
Bloom Filter False Ratio: 0.00000
Bloom Filter Space Used: 16
Compacted row minimum size: 1917
Compacted row maximum size: 2299
Compacted row mean size: 2299
Any help or suggestions are appreciated.
Sam
The caching stats have been moved from cfstats to info in Cassandra 1.1. If you run nodetool info you should see something like:
Key Cache : size 5552 (bytes), capacity 838860800 (bytes), 38 hits, 47 requests, 0.809 recent hit rate, 14400 save period in seconds
Row Cache : size 0 (bytes), capacity 838860800 (bytes), 0 hits, 0 requests, NaN recent hit rate, 15400 save period in seconds
This is because there are now global caches, rather than per-CF. It seems that Opscenter needs updating for this change - maybe there is a later version available that will work.