It's a bug, namely: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3616 You'd want to upgrade.
-- Sylvain On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Henrik Schröder <skro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We're running Cassandra 1.0.6 on Windows, and noticed that the amount of > files in the datadirectory just keeps growing. We have about 60GB of data > per node, we do a major compaction about once a week, but after compaction > there's a lot of 0-byte temp files and old files that are kept for some > reason. After 50 days of uptime there was around 50000 files in each > datadirectory, but when we restarted a server it deleted all the unnecessary > files and it shrunk down to about 200 files. > > We're running without compression, and with the regular compaction strategy, > not leveldb. I don't remember seeing this behaviour in older versions of > Cassandra, shouldn't it delete temp files while running? Is it possible to > force it to delete temp files while running? Is this fixed in a later > version? Or do we have to periodically restart servers to clean up the > datadirectories? > > > /Henrik Schröder
