Kal, you may have to flush before compacting. If you insert then compact, then it's almost certain that the inserts are still in the memtable, and thus not compacted.
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Kallin Nagelberg <kallin.nagelb...@gmail.com > wrote: > 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 > > > > >
