On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Franc Carter <franc.car...@sirca.org.au>wrote:
> > Hi, > > We are trialling Cassandra-1.2(.4) with Leveled compaction as it looks > like it may be a win for us. > > The first step of testing was to push a fairly large slab of data into the > Column Family - we did this much faster (> x100) than we would in a > production environment. This has left the Column Family with about 140,000 > files in the Column Family directory which seems way too high. On two of > the nodes the CompactionStats show 2 outstanding tasks and on a third node > there are over 13,000 outstanding tasks. However from looking at the log > activity it looks like compaction has finished on all nodes. > > Is this number of files expected/normal ? > An addendum to this. None of the files are *Data.db bigger than 5MB (including on the nodes that have finished compaction). I'm wondering if I have misunderstood Leveled Compaction, I thought that there should be data files of 50MB and 500MB (the dataset is 190GB) cheers > > cheers > > -- > > *Franc Carter* | Systems architect | Sirca Ltd > <marc.zianideferra...@sirca.org.au> > > franc.car...@sirca.org.au | www.sirca.org.au > > Tel: +61 2 8355 2514 > > Level 4, 55 Harrington St, The Rocks NSW 2000 > > PO Box H58, Australia Square, Sydney NSW 1215 > > > -- *Franc Carter* | Systems architect | Sirca Ltd <marc.zianideferra...@sirca.org.au> franc.car...@sirca.org.au | www.sirca.org.au Tel: +61 2 8355 2514 Level 4, 55 Harrington St, The Rocks NSW 2000 PO Box H58, Australia Square, Sydney NSW 1215
