I’m not parsing this - did the lower gcgs help or not ? Seeing the table 
histograms is the next step if this is still a problem 

The table level TTL doesn’t matter if you set a TTL on each insert 



-- 
Jeff Jirsa


> On Feb 23, 2019, at 4:37 PM, Rahul Reddy <rahulreddy1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Jeff,
> 
> I'm having gcgs set to 10 mins and changed the table ttl also to 5  hours 
> compared to insert ttl to 4 hours .  Tracing on doesn't show any tombstone 
> scans for the reads.  And also log doesn't show tombstone scan alerts. Has 
> the reads are happening 5-8k reads per node during the peak hours it shows 1M 
> tombstone scans count per read. 
> 
>> On Fri, Feb 22, 2019, 11:46 AM Jeff Jirsa <jji...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> If all of your data is TTL’d and you never explicitly delete a cell without 
>> using s TTL, you can probably drop your GCGS to 1 hour (or less).
>> 
>> Which compaction strategy are you using? You need a way to clear out those 
>> tombstones. There exist tombstone compaction sub properties that can help 
>> encourage compaction to grab sstables just because they’re full of 
>> tombstones which will probably help you.
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Jeff Jirsa
>> 
>> 
>>> On Feb 22, 2019, at 8:37 AM, Kenneth Brotman <kenbrot...@yahoo.com.invalid> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Can we see the histogram?  Why wouldn’t you at times have that many 
>>> tombstones?  Makes sense.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Kenneth Brotman
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> From: Rahul Reddy [mailto:rahulreddy1...@gmail.com] 
>>> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2019 7:06 AM
>>> To: user@cassandra.apache.org
>>> Subject: Tombstones in memtable
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> We have small table records are about 5k .
>>> 
>>> All the inserts comes as 4hr ttl and we have table level ttl 1 day and gc 
>>> grace seconds has 3 hours.  We do 5k reads a second during peak load During 
>>> the peak load seeing Alerts for tomstone scanned histogram reaching million.
>>> 
>>> Cassandra version 3.11.1. Please let me know how can this tombstone scan 
>>> can be avoided in memtable

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