Thanks Ryan. Done that : ) 1 TB is the striped size. We might look into bigger disks for our blades.
On Jun 22, 2011, at 7:09 PM, Ryan King wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Jonathan Colby > <jonathan.co...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Thanks for the explanation. I'm still a bit "skeptical". >> >> So if you really needed to control the maximum size of compacted SSTables, >> you need to delete data at such a rate that the new files created by >> compaction are less than or equal to the sum of the segments being merged. >> >> Is anyone else running into really large compacted SSTables that gave you >> trouble with hard disk capacity? How did you deal with it? >> >> We have 1 TB disks in our nodes, but keeping in mind we need to have at >> least 50% for the worst case compaction scenario I'm still a bit worried >> that one day we're going to hit a dead end. > > You should stripe those disks together with RAID-0. > > -ryan
