Re: disk space used vs nodetool status

2016-03-25 Thread Alain RODRIGUEZ
Hi Anishek they were created from more than a couple of months ago You then probably free a fair amount of data :-). We didn't do any actions that would create a snapshot You shouldn't have any snapshot unless you drop or truncate a table, call them through "nodetool snapshot" or run repair

Re: disk space used vs nodetool status

2016-03-22 Thread Anishek Agarwal
Thanks Carlos, We didn't do any actions that would create a snapshot, and i couldn't find the command in 2.0.17, but i found the respective snapshot directories and they were created from more than a couple of months ago so, i it might be that i might have forgotten, its fine now, i have cleared t

Re: disk space used vs nodetool status

2016-03-22 Thread Carlos Alonso
I'd say you have snapshots holding disk space. Check it with nodetool listsnapshots. A snapshot is automatically taken on destructive actions (drop, truncate...) and is basically a hard link to the involved SSTables, so it's not considered as data load from Cassandra but it is effectively using di

disk space used vs nodetool status

2016-03-21 Thread Anishek Agarwal
Hello, Using cassandra 2.0.17 on one of the 7 nodes i see that the "Load" column from nodetool status shows around 279.34 GB where as doing df -h on the two mounted disks the total is about 400GB any reason of why this difference could show up and how do i go about finding the cause for this ? T