It's the "live" data load. The SSTables which have not been compacted, their may be compacted SSTables still on disk.
Normally people see the live data load reported by the nodetool is less than the usage from du. Can you double check, perhaps raise a Jira ticket if you have some repo steps or some other data. Thanks ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 15/10/2011, at 7:13 AM, Ramesh Natarajan wrote: > What does the Load column in nodetool ring mean? From the output > below it shows 101.62 GB. However if I do a disk usage it is about 6 > GB. > > thanks > Ramesh > > > [root@CAP2-CNode1 cassandra]# > ~root/apache-cassandra-1.0.0-rc2/bin/nodetool -h localhost ring > Address DC Rack Status State Load > Owns Token > > 148873535527910577765226390751398592512 > 10.19.102.11 datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 101.62 GB > 12.50% 0 > 10.19.102.12 datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 84.42 GB > 12.50% 21267647932558653966460912964485513216 > 10.19.102.13 datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 95.47 GB > 12.50% 42535295865117307932921825928971026432 > 10.19.102.14 datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 91.25 GB > 12.50% 63802943797675961899382738893456539648 > 10.19.103.11 datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 93.98 GB > 12.50% 85070591730234615865843651857942052864 > 10.19.103.12 datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 100.33 GB > 12.50% 106338239662793269832304564822427566080 > 10.19.103.13 datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 74.1 GB > 12.50% 127605887595351923798765477786913079296 > 10.19.103.14 datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 93.96 GB > 12.50% 148873535527910577765226390751398592512 > > > > [root@CAP2-CNode1 cassandra]# du -hs /var/lib/cassandra/data/ > 6.0G /var/lib/cassandra/data/
