On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Jahangir Mohammed <md.jahangi...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Actually, they'll be removed on the first compaction that occurs after gc_grace_seconds. > On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:01 PM, A J <s5a...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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 ? -- Eric Evans Acunu | http://www.acunu.com | @acunu
