Re: "Dead" files in bitcask or something

2010-08-17 Thread Dmitry Demeshchuk
Thanks, I've read the conversation. Turning on timed sync for bitcask kinda solved the problem for now. On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Alexander Sicular wrote: > I'm having a discussion with dizzyd in the irc about this. The compaction is > not triggered by time or by and particular number o

Re: "Dead" files in bitcask or something

2010-08-17 Thread Alexander Sicular
I'm having a discussion with dizzyd in the irc about this. The compaction is not triggered by time or by and particular number of records overwritten, but rather the total number of dead bytes and fragmentation percentage as listed in the default config here, http://github.com/basho/bitcask/blo

Re: "Dead" files in bitcask or something

2010-08-17 Thread Wilson MacGyver
how is the compact phase defined/activated? I looked through the docs and didn't see it. On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Alexander Sicular wrote: > Bitcask is a write only log (wol) that eats disk (by keeping all updates) > until a compaction phase that reclaims disk at some defined interval.

Re: "Dead" files in bitcask or something

2010-08-17 Thread Dmitry Demeshchuk
We've been running Riak at production for 3 weeks and database just kept growing. Even more time for our test server. Well, it was an older Riak, 0.12.0. I've been running 0.12.1 for several hours and still no compaction though... On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Alexander Sicular wrote: > Bitca

Re: "Dead" files in bitcask or something

2010-08-17 Thread Alexander Sicular
Bitcask is a write only log (wol) that eats disk (by keeping all updates) until a compaction phase that reclaims disk at some defined interval. -Alexander @siculars on twitter http://siculars.posterous.com Sent from my iPhone On Aug 17, 2010, at 11:27, Dmitry Demeshchuk wrote: Greet

"Dead" files in bitcask or something

2010-08-17 Thread Dmitry Demeshchuk
Greetings. This problem has already been discussed in IRC a bit. I use Riak 0.12.1 (have been using 0.12.0 but then updated to the latest version and got the same problem) with bitcask storage. All Riak settings are default, i.e., all buckets are default-configured (allow_mult=false), replicatio