restarting the cassandra service helped get rid of those files in our situation.
thanks Sai On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Anuj Wadehra <anujw_2...@yahoo.co.in> wrote: > Hi, > > We are facing an issue where Cassandra has open file handles for deleted > sstable files. These open file handles keep on increasing with time and > eventually lead to disk crisis. This is visible via lsof command. > > There are no Exceptions in logs.We are suspecting a race condition where > compactions/repairs and reads are done on same sstable. I have gone through > few JIRAs but somehow not able to coorelate the issue with those tickets. > > We are using 2.0.14. OS is Red Hat Linux. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks > Anuj > > >