Which Accumulo version are you using? The command should work - it may not stop the compations that are currently writing files, but it should stop new ones from starting and cancel once those write complete.
Can you look at the number of FATE operations you have running and if there are conflicting table locks? Ed Coleman From: Hart, Andrew via user <user@accumulo.apache.org> Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2023 4:06 AM To: user@accumulo.apache.org Subject: accumulo shell compact --cancel -t mytable does not work Hi, I had some thousands of compactions running and queued (full user type) and tried to cancel but despite the command completing, the compactions did not cancel. What could be wrong? I resorted to repeatedly sending the same compact - cancel commands but I don't know if the cancel just takes hours or if it is necessary to repeat until the queue is drained? And. Public
