It's fine and intended behaviour. Upgradesstables also has the same effect.
Basically cleanup operates on all SSTables on a node (for each table) and
will cancel any in-progress compactions and instead run cleanup across
them, as you can't have two different compactions including the same file.
The
Hello,
when triggering a "nodetool cleanup" with Cassandra 3.11, the nodetool call
almost returns instantly and I see the following INFO log.
INFO [CompactionExecutor:54] 2018-01-22 12:59:53,903
CompactionManager.java:1777 - Compaction interrupted:
Compaction@fc9b0073-1008-3a07-aeb9-baf6f3cd0