So the only way to actually free the disk space consumed by the tombstones in the search index is to bring down the cluster and blow away the merge index (at /var/lib/riak/merge_index)?
-- Jeremy On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Jeremy Raymond <jeraym...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes I've read about the tombstoning, but figured writing the tombstone > would overwrite the existing item (at worst the data usage would stay > the same) vs writing something new (the data usage is growing). > > In another list post [2] from John M he outlines the tombstone removal > behaviour. I've just re-read this. With the default settings for Riak, > to have the tombstones removed from the search index I'll need to read > the deleted items again (but not the actual items, I'd need to read > the item's index somehow)? > > [2]:http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2011-October/006048.html > > -- > Jeremy > > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Vladimir Shapovalov > <shapova...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
