Thanks for your response I think the reference you are talking about is
http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/MemtableSSTable
Regards,
Anurag
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Peter Schuller wrote:
> > I stop my cassandra node and restarted it,this start and stop
> > resulted in decrease in
> I stop my cassandra node and restarted it,this start and stop
> resulted in decrease in the space used by cassandra by 20%.
> I am not sure what is happening?Can Anyone please shower some light on this
Probably because unused sstables were deleted on start-up that were
otherwise not us
