Force a GC to remove the unused sstables. Use something like jconsole or cmd line "jmap -histo:live <pid>". You would run the jmap command as the cassandra user or root. The jmap will give you a bunch of output on live objects in the heap if you choose to look at it.
Sridhar On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Jonathan Colby <jonathan.co...@gmail.com>wrote: > According to the Wiki Page on compaction: once compaction is finished, the > old SSTable files may be deleted* > > * http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/MemtableSSTable > > I thought the old SSTables would be deleted automatically, but this wiki > page got me thinking otherwise. > > Question is, if it is true that old SSTables must be manually deleted, how > can one safely identify which SSTables can be deleted?? > > Jon > > > > > >
