One more warning (which I'm sure you know, but in case others see this), nodetool compact does a major compaction for STS, and is in general, not recommended for STS. I only ran it on the tables we've converted to LCS.
-Mike On Mar 14, 2013, at 11:26 AM, Michael Theroux wrote: > Hi Dean, > > I saw the same behavior when we switched from STCS to LCS on a couple of our > tables. Not sure why it doesn't proceed immediately (I pinged the list, but > didn't get any feedback). However, running nodetool compact <keyspace> > <table> got things moving for me. > > -Mike > > On Mar 14, 2013, at 10:44 AM, Hiller, Dean wrote: > >> How do I get my node to run through the 13k pending compaction tasks? I had >> to use iptables to take the ring out of the cluster for now and he is my >> only node still on STCS. In cassandra-cli, it shows LCS but on disk, I see >> a 36Gig file(ie. Must be STCS still). How can I get the 13k pending tasks >> to start running? >> >> Nodetool compactionstats …. >> pending tasks: 13793 >> Active compaction remaining time : n/a >> >> Thanks, >> Dean >