Hi Jeremy, As far I'm concerned, delete operation doesn't delete the data physically, just mark it as deleted. I've encountered that problem a while ago and was also surprised about that fact that the data grows instead of reduce.
Cheers Vladimir On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Jeremy Raymond <jeraym...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I had Riak search enabled on a bucket containing millions of items. I > no longer need these items to be searchable so I uninstalled search on > the bucket via search-cmd. I'm looking to free the space consumed by > the search index for this bucket. Following a previous post [1] on > this list I'm deleting the items from the search index by running > search:delete_docs/1. After getting through about 1 million items I'm > seeing a noticeable increase in disk usage across the 3 node cluster, > an increase of about 7GB per node. > > Any ideas on why my disk usage would be increasing rather than > decreasing? The data in the cluster is static, the only activity is me > deleting the items from the search index. > > I'm running riak 1.1.2 with leveldb as the backend. > > [1]: > http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2011-September/005696.html > > -- > Jeremy > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com >
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