On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Manoj Mainali <mainalima...@gmail.com>wrote:
> With LeveledCompaction, each sstable size is fixed and is defined by > sstable_size_in_mb in the compaction configuration of CF definition and > default value is 5MB. In you case, you may have not defined your own value, > that is why your each sstable is 5MB. And if you dataset is huge, you will > see a lot of sstable counts. > Ok, seems like I do have (at least) an incomplete understanding. I realise that the minimum size is 5MB, but I thought compaction would merge these into a smaller number of larger sstables ? thanks > Cheers > > Manoj > > > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Franc Carter <franc.car...@sirca.org.au>wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> We are trialling Cassandra-1.2(.4) with Leveled compaction as it looks >> like it may be a win for us. >> >> The first step of testing was to push a fairly large slab of data into >> the Column Family - we did this much faster (> x100) than we would in a >> production environment. This has left the Column Family with about 140,000 >> files in the Column Family directory which seems way too high. On two of >> the nodes the CompactionStats show 2 outstanding tasks and on a third node >> there are over 13,000 outstanding tasks. However from looking at the log >> activity it looks like compaction has finished on all nodes. >> >> Is this number of files expected/normal ? >> >> cheers >> >> -- >> >> *Franc Carter* | Systems architect | Sirca Ltd >> <marc.zianideferra...@sirca.org.au> >> >> franc.car...@sirca.org.au | www.sirca.org.au >> >> Tel: +61 2 8355 2514 >> >> Level 4, 55 Harrington St, The Rocks NSW 2000 >> >> PO Box H58, Australia Square, Sydney NSW 1215 >> >> >> > -- *Franc Carter* | Systems architect | Sirca Ltd <marc.zianideferra...@sirca.org.au> franc.car...@sirca.org.au | www.sirca.org.au Tel: +61 2 8355 2514 Level 4, 55 Harrington St, The Rocks NSW 2000 PO Box H58, Australia Square, Sydney NSW 1215