Re: Mitigating CASSANDRA-2059 -- leftover files

2011-02-03 Thread Jonathan Ellis
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Omer van der Horst Jansen wrote: > In the meantime, is it safe to manually delete stale files while > Cassandra is running?  And how do I determine when a set of files is > stale? > > I'd assume that a given set of files is deletable if there is no > -Data.db file a

Mitigating CASSANDRA-2059 -- leftover files

2011-02-03 Thread Omer van der Horst Jansen
Jonathan pointed out in another thread that it looks like I'm running into CASSANDRA-2059, where secondary files are not being properly deleted. My production data set at any given time is less than 100 MB in size, but the Cassandra data directories on each instance are using 30 to 40 times as much