Ah, you are a lifesaver. I was so used to keeping the nodes always up. That worked!!!! It is finally taking affect. Thanks, Dean
On 3/14/13 10:47 AM, "Wei Zhu" <wz1...@yahoo.com> wrote: >Did you restart the node? As I can tell compactions start a few minutes >after restarting. Did you see a file called $CFName.json ($CFName is your >cf name) in your data directory? > > >-Wei > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Dean Hiller" <dean.hil...@nrel.gov> >To: user@cassandra.apache.org >Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 8:36:00 AM >Subject: Re: 13k pending compaction tasks but ZERO running? > >Duh me. I forgot to mention I ran "nodetool compact <k> <cf>" and it was >done in 45 seconds and I still had a 36G file(darn, I am usually better >about putting the detail in my emailsŠI thought I added that). I also >went into JMX and then did it there. > >I ran it again and it took 15 seconds. My script is as follows so that I >know the timesŠit's too bad nodetool doesn't log times for all tools they >have. If I have time, I should just do a pull request on that. > >#!/bin/bash > >date > compacttimes.txt >nodetool compact databus5 nreldata >> compacttimes.txt >date >> compacttimes.txt > > >Thanks, >Dean > >On 3/14/13 9:26 AM, "Michael Theroux" <mthero...@yahoo.com> 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 Š. >>> pending tasks: 13793 >>> Active compaction remaining time : n/a >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Dean >> > >
