I (finally) wrote a blog post about this: http://spyced.blogspot.com/2010/02/distributed-deletes-in-cassandra.html
I've also put it on the wiki in slightly modified form: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/DistributedDeletes On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 1:31 AM, kevin <kevincastigli...@gmail.com> wrote: > after deleting a lot of column families, column the disk space used by > cassandra and the Load reported by nodeprobe info is not going down at all. > > is there something i have to do recover the disk space? also what about the > Load reported by nodeprobe info? > thanks >