> I’ve got a single node deployment of 0.8 set up on my windows box. When I > insert a bunch of data into it, the commitlogs directory doesn’t clear upon > completion (should it?).
It is expected that commit logs are retained for a while, and that there is reply going on when restarting a node. The main way to ensure that a smaller amount of commit log is active at any given moment, is to ensure that all column familes are flushed sufficiently often. This is because when column families are flushed, they are no longer necessitating the retention of the commit logs that contain the writes that were just flushed. Pay attention to whether you maybe have some cf:s that are written very rarely and won't flush until the flush expiry period. > As a result, when I stop and restart Cassandra it > replays all the commitlogs, then starts compacting (which seems like it’s > taking a long time). While it’s compacting it won’t talk to my test client. That it starts compacting is expected if the data flushed as a result of the commit log reply triggers compactions. However, compaction does not imply that the node refuses to talk to clients. Are you sure the node has fully started? it should log when it starts up the thrift interface - check system.log. -- / Peter Schuller
