Another related question: Can the minor compactions across nodes be staggered so that I can control how many nodes are compacting at any given point ?
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:01 PM, A J <s5a...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks. What happens when my compaction fails for space reasons ? > Is no compaction possible till I add more space ? > I would assume writes are not impacted though the latency of reads > would increase, right ? > > Also though writes are not seek-intensive, compactions are seek-intensive, no > ? > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Tyler Hobbs <ty...@datastax.com> wrote: >> Ok, we are both correct here: >> >> Generally, a minor compaction takes less space than a major, but >> occasionally it does not. >> >> -- >> Tyler Hobbs >> Software Engineer, DataStax >> Maintainer of the pycassa Cassandra Python client library >> >> >
