Re: reducing disk space consumption

Thanks, Mohammed and Romain. On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 12:54 AM, Romain Hardouin wrote: > As Mohammed said "nodetool clearsnaphost" will do the trick. > Cassandra takes a snapshot by default before keyspace/table dropping or > truncation. > You can disable this feature if it's a dev node (see auto

Re: reducing disk space consumption

As Mohammed said "nodetool clearsnaphost" will do the trick. Cassandra takes a snapshot by default before keyspace/table dropping or truncation. You can disable this feature if it's a dev node (see auto_snapshot in cassandra.yaml) but if it's a production node is a good thing to keep auto snapsh

RE: reducing disk space consumption

If I remember it correctly, C* creates a snapshot when you drop a keyspace. Run the following command to get rid of the snapshot: nodetool clearsnapshot Mohammed Author: Big Data Analytics with Spark From: Ted Yu [mail

Re: reducing disk space consumption

suggestion : try the following command "lsof | grep DEL". If in the output if you see a lot of SSTable files; restart the node. The disk space will be claimed back. thanks Sai On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Ted Yu wrote: > Hi, > I am using DSE 4.8.4 > On one node, disk space is low where: