On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Gianluca Borello <gianl...@sysdig.com> wrote:
> > - It's also interesting to notice how the compaction in the previous > example is trying to compact ~37 GB, which is essentially the whole size of > the column family message_data1 as reported by cfstats: > Also related to this point, now I'm seeing something even more odd: some compactions are way bigger than the size of the column family itself, such as: $ nodetool compactionstats -H pending tasks: 110 compaction type keyspace table completed total unit progress Compaction draios message_data1 26.28 GB 118.73 GB bytes 22.13% Active compaction remaining time : 0h04m30s It says the total is 118.73 GB, but that column family never got anywhere close to that size, it has always stayed around ~30GB: $ du -hs /raid0/cassandra/data/draios/message_data1-* 35G /raid0/cassandra/data/draios/message_data1-ad87f550ea2b11e5a528dde586fa678e