I was in a similar situation and luckily had snapshots to clear and gain space but you are correct. I would be careful of using the disk more than 50% as the anit-compaction during cleanup could fail.
I don't have any experience with adding a data directory on the fly. On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Mark <static.void....@gmail.com> wrote: > Did both but didn't seem to help. I have another drive on that machine with > some free space. If I add another directory to the DataFileDirectory config > and restart, will it start using that directory? > > Anything else I can do? > > This actually leads me to an important question. Should I always make sure > that Cassandra doesn't get past 50% of the drives free space, otherwise an > anticompaction like this can just destroy the machine? > > On 12/8/10 1:12 AM, Jake Maizel wrote: >> >> Also, look for any snapshots that can be cleared with nodetool >> clearsnapshot or just run the command to remove any that exist. >> >> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Oleg Anastasyev<olega...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Mark<static.void.dev<at> gmail.com> writes: >>> >>>> Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Insufficient disk space to flush >>>> at >>>> On 12/7/10 8:44 PM, Mark wrote: >>>>> >>>>> 3 Node cluster and I just ran a nodetool cleanup on node #3. 1 and 2 >>>>> are now at 100% disk space. What should I do? >>>> >>> >>> Is there files with -tmp n their names ? >>> Try to remove them to free up disk space. >>> >>> >>> >> >> > -- Jake Maizel Network Operations Soundcloud Mail & GTalk: j...@soundcloud.com Skype: jakecloud Rosenthaler strasse 13, 101 19, Berlin, DE
