Ok thank you for your feedback. I'll add these tasks to our daily cassandra maintenance cronjob. Hopefully this will keep things under controll.
2012/1/25 Karl Hiramoto <k...@hiramoto.org> > On 01/25/12 16:09, R. Verlangen wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> I'm currently running a 2-node cluster for some small projects that might >> need to scale-up in the future: that's why we chose Cassandra. The actual >> problem is that one of the node's harddrive usage keeps growing. >> >> For example: >> - after a fresh restart ~ 10GB >> - after a couple of days running ~ 60GB >> >> I know that Cassandra uses lots of diskspace but is this still normal? >> I'm running cassandra 0.8.7 >> >> >> > I run 9 nodes with cassandra 0.7.8 and we see this same behaviour, but > we keep it under control by doing the sequence: > > nodetool repair > nodetool compact > nodetool cleanup > > According to the 1.0.x changelog IIRC this disk usage is supposed to be > improved. > > > -- > Karl >
