Did you run that verbatim ? Or you appropriately substituted "keyspace" and "columnfamily1" ?
Also, anything in cassandra's log file (system.log) ? Compacting 150Gb over 2057 SSTables should take a reasonable bit of time... On 2011-07-31, at 11:47 PM, myreasoner wrote: > Thanks. > > I did *./nodetool -h localhost compact keyspace columnfamily1 *. But it > came back really quick and the cfstats doesn't seem change much. > > After compaction: > Column Family: Fingerprint > SSTable count: 2057 > Space used (live): 164351343468 > Space used (total): 164742957014 > Memtable Columns Count: 33224 > Memtable Data Size: 22410133 > Memtable Switch Count: 378 > Read Count: 7 > Read Latency: NaN ms. > Write Count: 30972 > Write Latency: 1.579 ms. > Pending Tasks: 0 > Key cache capacity: 200000 > Key cache size: 8157 > Key cache hit rate: 0.0 > Row cache: disabled > Compacted row minimum size: 104 > Compacted row maximum size: 315852 > Compacted row mean size: 33846
