A compaction will be triggered when "min" number of same sized SStable files are found. So what's actually the purpose of the "max" part of the threshold?
On Jun 23, 2011, at 12:55 AM, aaron morton wrote: > Setting them to 2 and 2 means compaction can only ever compact 2 files at > time, so it will be worse off. > > Lets the try following: > > - restore the compactions settings to the default 4 and 32 > - run `ls -lah` in the data dir and grab the output > - run `nodetool flush` this will trigger minor compaction once the memtables > have been flushed > - check the logs for messages from 'CompactionManager' > - when done grab the output from `ls -lah` again. > > Hope that helps. > > > ----------------- > Aaron Morton > Freelance Cassandra Developer > @aaronmorton > http://www.thelastpickle.com > > On 23 Jun 2011, at 02:04, Héctor Izquierdo Seliva wrote: > >> Hi All. I set the compaction threshold at minimum 2, maximum 2 and try >> to run compact, but it's not doing anything. There are over 69 sstables >> now, read performance is horrible, and it's taking an insane amount of >> space. Maybe I don't quite get how the new per bucket stuff works, but I >> think this is not normal behaviour. >> >> El lun, 13-06-2011 a las 10:32 -0500, Jonathan Ellis escribió: >>> As Terje already said in this thread, the threshold is per bucket >>> (group of similarly sized sstables) not per CF. >>> >>> 2011/6/13 Héctor Izquierdo Seliva <izquie...@strands.com>: >>>> I was already way over the minimum. There were 12 sstables. Also, is >>>> there any reason why scrub got stuck? I did not see anything in the >>>> logs. Via jmx I saw that the scrubbed bytes were equal to one of the >>>> sstables size, and it stuck there for a couple hours . >>>> >>>> El lun, 13-06-2011 a las 22:55 +0900, Terje Marthinussen escribió: >>>>> That most likely happened just because after scrub you had new files >>>>> and got over the "4" file minimum limit. >>>>> >>>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2697 >>>>> >>>>> Is the bug report. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >
