On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Freeman, Tim <tim.free...@hp.com> wrote: >>how many are in your data directories? is your compaction >>lagging 1000s of tables behind again? > > Yes, there are 2348 files in data/Keyspace1, and jconsole says the compaction > pool has >1600 pending tasks.
If you stop doing client requests does that number start to go down? If not there is a bug. If there are exceptions in the logs then it is an obvious one otherwise something more subtle. :) -Jonathan