Ops, I misread "150 GB" in one of your earlier emails as "150 MB" so forget what I said before. You have loads of free space :)
How many files do you have in your data directory ? If it's 1 then that log message was a small bug, that has been fixed. Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 5 Jun 2011, at 23:51, Mario Micklisch wrote: > I found a patch for the php extension here: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-1067 > > … this seemed to fix the issue. Thank you Jonathan and Aaron for taking time > to provide me with some help! > > Regarding the compaction I would still love to hear your feedback on how to > configure Cassandra accordingly. > > Here are my facts again: > > Data size on disk: ~1GB > Data Volume: ~150GB free storage > OS Volume: ~3GB free storage > > Tried: > nodetool --host localhost compact > > The logfiles said: > ERROR [CompactionExecutor:2] 2011-06-05 11:44:39,346 CompactionManager.java > (line 510) insufficient space to compact even the two smallest files, aborting > ERROR [CompactionExecutor:2] 2011-06-05 11:44:39,348 CompactionManager.java > (line 510) insufficient space to compact even the two smallest files, aborting > ERROR [CompactionExecutor:2] 2011-06-05 11:44:39,349 CompactionManager.java > (line 510) insufficient space to compact even the two smallest files, aborting > INFO [CompactionExecutor:2] 2011-06-05 11:44:39,366 CompactionManager.java > (line 539) Compacting Major: > [SSTableReader(path='/mnt/cassandra/data/system/LocationInfo-g-81-Data.db'), > SSTableReader(path='/mnt/cassandra/data/system/LocationInfo-g-80-Data.db'), > SSTableReader(path='/mnt/cassandra/data/system/LocationInfo-g-79-Data.db')] > INFO [CompactionExecutor:2] 2011-06-05 11:44:39,502 CompactionIterator.java > (line 186) Major@23231510(system, LocationInfo, 386/689) now compacting at > 16777 bytes/ms. > INFO [CompactionExecutor:2] 2011-06-05 11:44:39,713 CompactionManager.java > (line 603) Compacted to > /mnt/cassandra/data/system/LocationInfo-tmp-g-82-Data.db. 689 to 446 (~64% > of original) bytes for 3 keys. Time: 346ms. > ERROR [CompactionExecutor:2] 2011-06-05 11:44:39,726 CompactionManager.java > (line 510) insufficient space to compact even the two smallest files, aborting > ERROR [CompactionExecutor:2] 2011-06-05 11:44:39,726 CompactionManager.java > (line 510) insufficient space to compact even the two smallest files, aborting > > # du -hs /mnt/cassandra/ > 886M /mnt/cassandra/ > > # df -H > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 8.5G 4.9G 3.6G 49% / > /dev/sda2 158G 1.2G 149G 1% /mnt > > > # nodetool --host localhost info > 130915841875673808436922706546793999597 > Gossip active : true > Load : 1.48 MB > Generation No : 1307273982 > Uptime (seconds) : 383 > Heap Memory (MB) : 89.59 / 822.00 > > > Thank you, > Mario > > > > 2011/6/5 Mario Micklisch <mario.mickli...@hpm-kommunikation.de> > I tracked down the timestamp submission and everything was fine within the > PHP Libraries. > > The thrift php extension however seems to have an overflow, because it was > now setting now timestamps with also negative values ( -1242277493 ). I > disabled the php extension and as a result I now got correct microsecond > timestamps: 1307270937122897 > > I was using the latest version from http://www.apache.org/dist/thrift/0.6.1/ > to build the extension without using any special parameters (just ./configure > --enable-gen-php=yes and make install). > > Downloaded and re-compiled it, without any change. I can also see no compile > parameters to set which might help. > > > > Any advise where to go from here? > > > > Thanks so far! > > Mario > >