Thanks for reminding. I'm going to start with adding the cleanup & compact to the chain of maintenance tasks. In my opinion java should determine itselfs when to start a GC: doesn't feel natural to do this manually.
2012/1/25 Karl Hiramoto <k...@hiramoto.org> > > On 01/25/12 19:18, R. Verlangen wrote: > >> Ok thank you for your feedback. I'll add these tasks to our daily >> cassandra maintenance cronjob. Hopefully this will keep things under >> controll. >> > > I forgot to mention that we found that Forcing a GC also cleans up some > space. > > > in a cronjob you can do this with > http://crawler.archive.org/**cmdline-jmxclient/<http://crawler.archive.org/cmdline-jmxclient/> > > > my cronjob looks more like > > nodetool repair > nodetool cleanup > nodetool compact > java -jar cmdline-jmxclient-0.10.3.jar - localhost:8080 > java.lang:type=Memory gc > > -- > Karl >