RE: SSTables are not getting removed

2015-11-02 Thread Walsh, Stephen
m: Nate McCall [mailto:n...@thelastpickle.com] Sent: 30 October 2015 22:06 To: Cassandra Users Subject: Re: SSTables are not getting removed memtable_offheap_space_in_mb: 4096 memtable_cleanup_threshold: 0.99 ^ What led to this setting? You are basically telling Cassandra to not flush the highest-tr

Re: SSTables are not getting removed

2015-10-30 Thread Nate McCall
> > > memtable_offheap_space_in_mb: 4096 > > memtable_cleanup_threshold: 0.99 > ^ What led to this setting? You are basically telling Cassandra to not flush the highest-traffic memtable until the memtable space is 99% full. With that many tables and keyspaces, you are basically locking up everythi

Re: SSTables are not getting removed

2015-10-30 Thread Jeff Jirsa
d out. - Jeff From: "Walsh, Stephen" Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org" Date: Friday, October 30, 2015 at 10:20 AM To: "user@cassandra.apache.org" Subject: SSTables are not getting removed Hey all, First off, thank you for taking the time to read this.

SSTables are not getting removed

2015-10-30 Thread Walsh, Stephen
Hey all, First off, thank you for taking the time to read this. --- SYSTEM SPEC --- We're using Cassandra Version 2.1.6 (please don't ask us to upgrade just yet less you are aware of an existing bug for this issue) We are running on AWS 4 core . 16 GB server We a