What's the secret recipe that I'm missing? I tried forcing compaction on my column family's JMX bean (org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilies.Main.Session) in jconsole, after gc_grace had passed (i set it to 60).
Thanks, -Kal On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Benjamin Coverston <ben.covers...@datastax.com> wrote: > > On 2/8/11 1:23 PM, Kallin Nagelberg wrote: >> >> I did read those articles, but I didn't know know that deleting all >> the columns on a row was equivalent to deleting the row. Like I >> mentioned, I did delete all the columns from all my rows and then >> forced compaction before and after gc_grace had passed, but all the >> rows still exist. If they never disappear, then won't I run out of >> resources eventually? >> >> -Kal > > You would, if there weren't a way to get rid of tombstones: > > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/DistributedDeletes > > -- > Ben Coverston > DataStax -- The Apache Cassandra Company > >
