Re: Major compaction does not seems to free the disk space a lot if wide rows are used.

2013-05-16 Thread Edward Capriolo
gt; Regards, > Jacques > > From: Boris Yen > Reply-To: "user@cassandra.apache.org" > Date: Thursday, May 16, 2013 04:07 > To: "user@cassandra.apache.org" , " > d...@cassandra.apache.org" > Subject: Major compaction does not seems to fr

Re: Major compaction does not seems to free the disk space a lot if wide rows are used.

2013-05-16 Thread Louvet, Jacques
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Major compaction does not seems to free the disk space a lot if wide rows are used.

2013-05-16 Thread Boris Yen
Hi All, Sorry for the wide distribution. Our cassandra is running on 1.0.10. Recently, we are facing a weird situation. We have a column family containing wide rows (each row might have a few million of columns). We delete the columns on a daily basis and we also run major compaction on it everyd