Re: Disk usage doubled after nodetool compact

2010-05-18 Thread Jonathan Ellis
Sounds like this: "SSTables that are obsoleted by a compaction are deleted asynchronously when the JVM performs a GC. You can force a GC from jconsole if necessary, but Cassandra will force one itself if it detects that it is low on space. A compaction marker is also added to obsolete sstables so

Disk usage doubled after nodetool compact

2010-05-17 Thread Arie Keren
After performing "nodetool compact" command the disk usage was doubled. nodetool info reports that the load is 74G (same as before compaction) while the size of the data folder on disk is 133GB (was about 74G before compaction).