After running Cassandra for 2 years in production on Windows servers, starting from 0.7 beta2 up to 1.0.7 we have moved to Linux and forgot all the hell we had on Windows. Having JNA, off-heap row cache and normally working MMAP on Linux you're getting a lot better performance and stability comparing to Windows, and less maintenance.
2012/3/1 Henrik Schröder <skro...@gmail.com> > Great, thanks! > > > /Henrik > > > On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 13:08, Sylvain Lebresne <sylv...@datastax.com>wrote: > >> It's a bug, namely: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3616 >> You'd want to upgrade. >> >> -- >> Sylvain >> >> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Henrik Schröder <skro...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > We're running Cassandra 1.0.6 on Windows, and noticed that the amount of >> > files in the datadirectory just keeps growing. We have about 60GB of >> data >> > per node, we do a major compaction about once a week, but after >> compaction >> > there's a lot of 0-byte temp files and old files that are kept for some >> > reason. After 50 days of uptime there was around 50000 files in each >> > datadirectory, but when we restarted a server it deleted all the >> unnecessary >> > files and it shrunk down to about 200 files. >> > >> > We're running without compression, and with the regular compaction >> strategy, >> > not leveldb. I don't remember seeing this behaviour in older versions of >> > Cassandra, shouldn't it delete temp files while running? Is it possible >> to >> > force it to delete temp files while running? Is this fixed in a later >> > version? Or do we have to periodically restart servers to clean up the >> > datadirectories? >> > >> > >> > /Henrik Schröder >> > >
