Oh I see! Thanks for the correction. 

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Pronam Chatterjee
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On Wednesday 4 January 2012 at 7:35 PM, Sean Cribbs wrote:

> Pronam,
> 
> That is a different setting entirely and not related to normal delete 
> operations.
> 
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Pronam Chatterjee <[email protected] 
> (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> > If you are using bit cask, it takes a while before the space will be freed. 
> > I think the default is 24 hours. Below is a quote from the bit cask page on 
> > the wiki. 
> > 
> > 
> > Purging stale entries after a fixed period
> > 
> > 
> > To automatically purge stale values, set the expiry_secs value to the 
> > desired cutoff time. Keys that are not modified for a period equal to or 
> > greater than expiry_secs will become inaccessible. 
> > 
> > 
> > http://wiki.basho.com/Bitcask.html
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Pronam Chatterjee
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> > 
> > 
> > On Wednesday 4 January 2012 at 6:33 PM, Vicky Khanna wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > Hi, 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I had around 100 million entries in the riak cluster of 4 which was 
> > > taking 9*4 = 36 GB of RAM.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I deleted some 40 million keys from the cluster and still the size is 
> > > same.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I restarted the cluster and still size is same.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Can anyone please tell why riak is still retaining its original size even 
> > > after deletion.
> > > 
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks in Advance
> > > 
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Vicky Khanna
> > > 
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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> -- 
> Sean Cribbs <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])>
> Software Engineer
> Basho Technologies, Inc.
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