Hi Jan, Thanks for the response. My SSTables are < 3MB and I have 3500+ SSTables in the folder. When you say if they are small do you think my file sizes are small ? I ran the nodetool compact nothing happened, then I ran nodetool scrub it removed 500 SSTables then it stopped.
Thanks for that tip about the heap usage, it looks like a legit fact I should be checking out. Regards Lahiru On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 11:58 PM, Jan Kesten <j.kes...@enercast.de> wrote: > Hi Lahiru, > > maybe your node was running out of memory before. I saw this behaviour if > available heap is low forcing to flush out memtables to sstables quite > often. > > If this is that what is hitting you, you should see that the sstables are > really small. > > To cleanup, nodetool compact would do the job - but if you do not need > data from one of the keyspaces at all just drop and recreate it (but look > into your data directory if there are snapshots left). Prevent this in > future have a close look at heap consumption and maybe give it more memory. > > HTH, > Jan >
