Pronam, That is a different setting entirely and not related to normal delete operations.
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Pronam Chatterjee <pron...@yahoo.com> wrote: > 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 > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > > -- Sean Cribbs <s...@basho.com> Software Engineer Basho Technologies, Inc. http://basho.com/
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