Re: can I kill very old data files in my data folder (I know that sounds crazy but....)

2014-06-19 Thread Jens Rantil
...and temporarily adding more nodes and rebalancing is not an option?— Sent from Mailbox On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Brian Tarbox wrote: > I don't think I have the space to run a major compaction right now (I'm > above 50% disk space used already) and compaction can take extra space I > th

Re: can I kill very old data files in my data folder (I know that sounds crazy but....)

2014-06-18 Thread Brian Tarbox
I don't think I have the space to run a major compaction right now (I'm above 50% disk space used already) and compaction can take extra space I think? On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Robert Coli wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Brian Tarbox > wrote: > >> Thank you! We are not usi

Re: can I kill very old data files in my data folder (I know that sounds crazy but....)

2014-06-18 Thread Robert Coli
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Brian Tarbox wrote: > Thank you! We are not using TTL, we're manually deleting data more than > 5 days old for this CF. We're running 1.2.13 and are using size tiered > compaction (this cf is append-only i.e.zero updates). > > Sounds like we can get away with

Re: can I kill very old data files in my data folder (I know that sounds crazy but....)

2014-06-18 Thread Brian Tarbox
Rob, Thank you! We are not using TTL, we're manually deleting data more than 5 days old for this CF. We're running 1.2.13 and are using size tiered compaction (this cf is append-only i.e.zero updates). Sounds like we can get away with doing a (stop, delete old-data-file, restart) process on a r

Re: can I kill very old data files in my data folder (I know that sounds crazy but....)

2014-06-18 Thread Robert Coli
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Brian Tarbox wrote: > I have a column family that only stores the last 5 days worth of some > data...and yet I have files in the data directory for this CF that are 3 > weeks old. > Are you using TTL? If so : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6654

can I kill very old data files in my data folder (I know that sounds crazy but....)

2014-06-18 Thread Brian Tarbox
I have a column family that only stores the last 5 days worth of some data...and yet I have files in the data directory for this CF that are 3 weeks old. They take the form: keyspace-CFName-ic--Filter.db keyspace-CFName-ic--Index.db keyspace-CFName-ic--Data.db keyspace-CFName-ic--