If you are using bit cask, it takes a while before the space will be freed. I think the default is 24 hours. Below is a quote from the bit cask page on the wiki.
Purging stale entries after a fixed period To automatically purge stale values, set the expiry_secs value to the desired cutoff time. Keys that are not modified for a period equal to or greater than expiry_secs will become inaccessible. http://wiki.basho.com/Bitcask.html -- Pronam Chatterjee Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) On Wednesday 4 January 2012 at 6:33 PM, Vicky Khanna wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > I had around 100 million entries in the riak cluster of 4 which was taking > 9*4 = 36 GB of RAM. > > > I deleted some 40 million keys from the cluster and still the size is same. > > > I restarted the cluster and still size is same. > > > Can anyone please tell why riak is still retaining its original size even > after deletion. > > > > > > Thanks in Advance > > > > > > Vicky Khanna > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com (mailto:riak-users@lists.basho.com) > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > >
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