Re: disable compaction

2011-07-20 Thread Nikolai Kopylov
Thanx a lot Edward, will follow your advice. On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Edward Capriolo wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Nikolai Kopylov wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> finding out recently that cassandra have no upper limit for sstable files &g

disable compaction

2011-07-20 Thread Nikolai Kopylov
Hi everyone, finding out recently that cassandra have no upper limit for sstable files to grow, I decided to move to deletion of CF with obsolete data. So that I will not remove columns and there is no need in compaction at all. How can I completely disable the compaction process? Thanx for your

Re: deletion questions

2011-07-19 Thread Nikolai Kopylov
llect (or do a rolling restart). Those are > the only times that Cassandra deletes files. There is a better way being > developed (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2521). > > Konstantin > > - Original Message - > From: "Nikolai Kopylov" > To:

deletion questions

2011-07-19 Thread Nikolai Kopylov
Hello, I'm trying to use Cassandra 0.8.1 as a media storage where the stored items have some TTL. So that I need to somehow delete and purge obsoleted items. I've played with deletion columns from db by using Thift CassandraClient::remove call, but faced with the problem that sstable files become