My understanding was that total is sum of all SSTables on disc even those not being used currently and live is the sum of the SSTables on disc that are being used currently.
Well I have a Cassandra 1.0.2 cluster in which all of the column families are reporting live being greater than total. I have a 5 node cluster with a replication factor of 3. And example column family's data: SSTable count: 7 Space used (live): 360190517439 Space used (total): 114886096957 As you can see, live is a little over 3x that of the total. How is that possible? The actual disk space consumed reflects that of the of the total, not "live". -- View this message in context: http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/Question-about-storage-live-vs-total-for-column-families-tp7078451p7078451.html Sent from the cassandra-u...@incubator.apache.org mailing list archive at Nabble.com.