On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Franc Carter <franc.car...@sirca.org.au> wrote: > We are running a test system with Leveled compaction on Cassandra-1.2.4. > While doing an initial load of the data one of the nodes ran out of file > descriptors and since then it hasn't been automatically compacting.
You have (at least) two options : 1) increase file descriptors available to Cassandra with ulimit, if possible 2) increase the size of your sstables with levelled compaction, such that you have fewer of them =Rob
