Its the decompressed size of the partitions. Each sstable has stats
component that contains histograms for the size and number of columns in
the partitions (among other things, can see with sstablemetadata tool),
tablehistograms merges it for each sstable and gives the results.
Chris
On Fri, Feb
I am working on some issues involving really big partitions. I have been
making extensive use of nodetool tablehistograms. What exactly is the
partition size being reported? I have a table for which the max value
reported is about 3.5 GB, but running du -h against the table data
directory reports 5