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
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