Re: nodetool compact cannot remove tombstone in system keyspace

2015-01-13 Thread Xu Zhongxing
Thanks for confirming "the tombstones will only get removed during compaction if they are older than GC_Grace_Seconds for that CF". I didn't find such a clarification in the documentation. That answered my question. Since the table that has too many tombstones is in the system keyspace, I cann

Re: nodetool compact cannot remove tombstone in system keyspace

2015-01-13 Thread Rahul Neelakantan
I am not sure about the tombstone_failure_threshold, but the tombstones will only get removed during compaction if they are older than GC_Grace_Seconds for that CF. How old are these tombstones? Rahul > On Jan 12, 2015, at 11:27 PM, Xu Zhongxing wrote: > > Hi, > > When I connect to C* with d