Thanx a lot Edward, will follow your advice. On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Nikolai Kopylov <kopy...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> finding out recently that cassandra have no upper limit for sstable files >> to grow, I decided to move to deletion of CF with obsolete data. >> So that I will not remove columns and there is no need in compaction at >> all. How can I completely disable the compaction process? >> >> Thanx for your attention, >> Nikolai >> >> > This can be done from the CLI. > [default@unknown] help update column family; > update column family Bar; > update column family Bar with <att1>=<value1>; > update column family Bar with <att1>=<value1> and <att2>=<value2>...; > > - min_compaction_threshold: Avoid minor compactions of less than this > number of sstable files > - max_compaction_threshold: Compact no more than this number of sstable > files at once > > update column family xxx with min_compaction_threshold=0 and > max_compaction_threshold=0; > > Rolling over data into new column families is one extreme way to avoid > compaction :) > > Edward > > -- C уважением, Николай.
