Tombstone is a marker indicating the record to be deleted. "gc_grace_seconds" is the time after which the record will be deleted physically from the node.
There is no ad-hoc way of gc'ing tombstones. Only after "gc_grace_seconds" the tombstones will be gc'ed. Thanks, Jahangir Mohammed. On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:01 PM, A J <s5a...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > Is 'garbage collecting tombstones ' a different operation than the JVM GC. > Garbage collecting tombstones is controlled by gc_grace_seconds which > by default is set to 10 days. But the traditional GC seems to happen > much more frequently (when observed through jconsole) ? > > How can I force the garbage collecting tombstones to happen ad-hoc > when I want to ? > > Thanks. >
