Hi, I´m running Cassandra 1.1.5 and have following issue.
I´m using a 10 days TTL on my CF. I can see a lot of tombstones in there, but they aren´t deleted after compaction. I have tried a nodetool -cleanup and also a restart of Cassandra, but nothing happened. total 61G drwxr-xr-x 2 cassandra dba 20K Mar 4 06:35 . drwxr-xr-x 10 cassandra dba 4.0K Dec 10 13:05 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 15M Dec 15 22:04 whatever-he-1398-CompressionInfo.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 19G Dec 15 22:04 whatever-he-1398-Data.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 15M Dec 15 22:04 whatever-he-1398-Filter.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 357M Dec 15 22:04 whatever-he-1398-Index.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 4.3K Dec 15 22:04 whatever-he-1398-Statistics.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 9.5M Feb 6 15:45 whatever-he-5464-CompressionInfo.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 12G Feb 6 15:45 whatever-he-5464-Data.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 48M Feb 6 15:45 whatever-he-5464-Filter.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 736M Feb 6 15:45 whatever-he-5464-Index.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 4.3K Feb 6 15:45 whatever-he-5464-Statistics.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 9.7M Feb 21 19:13 whatever-he-6829-CompressionInfo.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 12G Feb 21 19:13 whatever-he-6829-Data.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 47M Feb 21 19:13 whatever-he-6829-Filter.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 792M Feb 21 19:13 whatever-he-6829-Index.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 4.3K Feb 21 19:13 whatever-he-6829-Statistics.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 3.7M Mar 1 10:46 whatever-he-7578-CompressionInfo.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 4.3G Mar 1 10:46 whatever-he-7578-Data.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 12M Mar 1 10:46 whatever-he-7578-Filter.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 274M Mar 1 10:46 whatever-he-7578-Index.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 4.3K Mar 1 10:46 whatever-he-7578-Statistics.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 3.6M Mar 1 11:21 whatever-he-7582-CompressionInfo.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 4.3G Mar 1 11:21 whatever-he-7582-Data.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 9.7M Mar 1 11:21 whatever-he-7582-Filter.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 236M Mar 1 11:21 whatever-he-7582-Index.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 4.3K Mar 1 11:21 whatever-he-7582-Statistics.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 3.7M Mar 3 12:13 whatever-he-7869-CompressionInfo.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 4.3G Mar 3 12:13 whatever-he-7869-Data.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 9.8M Mar 3 12:13 whatever-he-7869-Filter.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 239M Mar 3 12:13 whatever-he-7869-Index.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 4.3K Mar 3 12:13 whatever-he-7869-Statistics.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 924K Mar 3 18:02 whatever-he-7953-CompressionInfo.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 1.1G Mar 3 18:02 whatever-he-7953-Data.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 2.1M Mar 3 18:02 whatever-he-7953-Filter.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 51M Mar 3 18:02 whatever-he-7953-Index.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 4.3K Mar 3 18:02 whatever-he-7953-Statistics.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 231K Mar 3 20:06 whatever-he-7974-CompressionInfo.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 268M Mar 3 20:06 whatever-he-7974-Data.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 483K Mar 3 20:06 whatever-he-7974-Filter.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 12M Mar 3 20:06 whatever-he-7974-Index.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 4.3K Mar 3 20:06 whatever-he-7974-Statistics.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 116K Mar 4 06:28 whatever-he-8002-CompressionInfo.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 146M Mar 4 06:28 whatever-he-8002-Data.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 646K Mar 4 06:28 whatever-he-8002-Filter.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 16M Mar 4 06:28 whatever-he-8002-Index.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 4.3K Mar 4 06:28 whatever-he-8002-Statistics.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 58K Mar 4 06:28 whatever-he-8003-CompressionInfo.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 67M Mar 4 06:28 whatever-he-8003-Data.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 105K Mar 4 06:28 whatever-he-8003-Filter.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 2.5M Mar 4 06:28 whatever-he-8003-Index.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 4.3K Mar 4 06:28 whatever-he-8003-Statistics.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 230K Mar 4 06:30 whatever-he-8004-CompressionInfo.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 261M Mar 4 06:30 whatever-he-8004-Data.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 480K Mar 4 06:30 whatever-he-8004-Filter.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 12M Mar 4 06:30 whatever-he-8004-Index.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 4.3K Mar 4 06:30 whatever-he-8004-Statistics.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 15K Mar 4 06:30 whatever-he-8005-CompressionInfo.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 16M Mar 4 06:30 whatever-he-8005-Data.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 39K Mar 4 06:30 whatever-he-8005-Filter.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 944K Mar 4 06:30 whatever-he-8005-Index.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 4.3K Mar 4 06:30 whatever-he-8005-Statistics.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 5.0K Mar 4 06:35 whatever-he-8006-CompressionInfo.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 6.7M Mar 4 06:35 whatever-he-8006-Data.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 81K Mar 4 06:35 whatever-he-8006-Filter.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 2.0M Mar 4 06:35 whatever-he-8006-Index.db -rw-r--r-- 1 cassandra dba 4.3K Mar 4 06:35 whatever-he-8006-Statistics.db The things marked in red, I guess, are the old data, but they aren´t deleted. As you can see on the date, they are older than 10 days. Is there any possibility to delete them? Here is also the schema of the CF: create column family whatever with column_type = 'Standard' and comparator = 'AsciiType' and default_validation_class = 'AsciiType' and key_validation_class = 'AsciiType' and read_repair_chance = 0.0 and dclocal_read_repair_chance = 0.0 and gc_grace = 0 and min_compaction_threshold = 4 and max_compaction_threshold = 32 and replicate_on_write = false and compaction_strategy = 'org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.SizeTieredCompactionStrategy' and caching = 'KEYS_ONLY' and compression_options = {'sstable_compression' : 'org.apache.cassandra.io.compress.SnappyCompressor'}; Br, Matthias Zeilinger Production Operation - Shared Services P: +43 (0) 50 858-31185 M: +43 (0) 664 85-34459 E: matthias.zeilin...@bwinparty.com bwin.party services (Austria) GmbH Marxergasse 1B A-1030 Vienna www.bwinparty.com