RE: Safely Disabling Compaction

2012-05-20 Thread Viktor Jevdokimov
in error, please contact the sender immediately and irrevocably delete this message and any copies. From: Vijay [mailto:vijay2...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 06:09 To: user@cassandra.apache.org Cc: cassandra-u...@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Safely Disabling Compaction I would

Re: Safely Disabling Compaction

2012-05-20 Thread aaron morton
The docs for the CLI say: - min_compaction_threshold: The minimum number of SSTables needed to start a minor compaction. Default is 4, setting to 0 disables minor compactions. If you are getting an error using 0 can you please raise a ticket on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA (A

Re: Safely Disabling Compaction

2012-05-17 Thread Vijay
I would rather set the Keyspace setting min_compaction_threshold and max_compaction_threshold to be a higher number and once i am ready i will put the value back... This way i dont need to restart. Having said that why not set the compaction throughput to 1 (low enough to not have contention) and c