On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Víctor Hugo Oliveira Molinar <vhmoli...@gmail.com> wrote: > So I'd like to know more about what does happens in a cleanup operation. > Appreciate any help.
./src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/compaction/CompactionManager.java" line 591 of 1175 " logger.info("Cleaning up " + sstable); // Calculate the expected compacted filesize long expectedRangeFileSize = cfs.getExpectedCompactedFileSize(Arrays.asList(sstable), OperationType.CLEANUP); File compactionFileLocation = cfs.directories.getDirectoryForNewSSTables(expectedRangeFileSize); if (compactionFileLocation == null) throw new IOException("disk full"); " It looks like it is actually saying your disk is "too full to complete compaction", not actually full right now. That said, a cleanup compaction does a 1:1 traversal of all SSTables, writing out a new one without any data that no longer belongs on the node due to range ownership changes. There is some lag in Cassandra before the JVM is able to actually delete files from disk, perhaps you are hitting this race condition? =Rob