If I'm reading the docs correctly, only files smaller
than small_file_threshold will be included in a merge. So
if small_file_threshold must be bigger than max_file_size for a merge to
happen?

- Jeremy


On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Jeremy Raymond <[email protected]>wrote:

> Maybe I just need to tweak the Bitcask parameters to merge more often?
>
> I have approx 17000 keys which get overwritten once an hour. After each
> updated the /var/lib/riak/bitcask folder grows by 20 MB (so about 1200 bytes
> per key). With the default frag_merge_trigger at 60 I should get a merge
> every 3 hours as I would have > 60% of the keys being dead? This would also
> meet the default frag_threshold of 40 since > 40% of the keys are dead? I'm
> not seeing the merging happening.
>
> - Jeremy
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Jeremiah Peschka <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I would think that the InnoDB backend would be a better backend for the
>> use case you're describing.
>> ---
>> Jeremiah Peschka - Founder, Brent Ozar PLF, LLC
>> Microsoft SQL Server MVP
>>
>> On Sep 14, 2011, at 8:09 AM, Jeremy Raymond wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I store data in Riak whose keys constantly get overwritten with new
>> data. I'm currently using Bitcask as the back-end and recently noticed the
>> Bitcask data folder grow to 24GB. After restarting the nodes, which I think
>> triggered Bitcask merge, the data went down to 96MB. Today the data dirs are
>> back up to around 500MB. Would an alternate backend better suit this type of
>> use case where keys are constantly being overwritten?
>> >
>> > - Jeremy
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