On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 7:27 PM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com>wrote:

> nodetool compactionstats, gives
>
>     pending tasks: 13120
>
> If there are no errors in the log, I would say this is a bug.
>

This happened after the node ran out of file descriptors, so an edge case
wouldn't surprise me.

I've rebuilt the node (blown the data way and am running a nodetool
rebuild). Do you think it's worth posting an issue, or not enough traceable
evidence ?

cheers


>
> Cheers
>
>    -----------------
> Aaron Morton
> Freelance Cassandra Consultant
> New Zealand
>
> @aaronmorton
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>
> On 19/06/2013, at 11:41 AM, Franc Carter <franc.car...@sirca.org.au>
> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Bryan Talbot <btal...@aeriagames.com>wrote:
>
>> Manual compaction for LCS doesn't really do much.  It certainly doesn't
>> compact all those little files into bigger files.  What makes you think
>> that compactions are not occurring?
>>
>
> Yeah, that's what I thought, however:-
>
> nodetool compactionstats, gives
>
>     pending tasks: 13120
>    Active compaction remaining time :        n/a
>
> when I run nodetool compact in a loop the pending tasks goes down
> gradually.
>
> This node also has vastly higher latencies (x10) than the other nodes. I
> saw this with a previous CF than I 'manually compacted', and when the
> pending tasks reached low numbers (stuck on 9) then latencies were back to
> low milliseconds
>
> cheers
>
>
>> -Bryan
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Franc Carter 
>> <franc.car...@sirca.org.au>wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Franc Carter <
>>> franc.car...@sirca.org.au> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Oops, I wasn't clear enough.
>>>>
>>>> I have increased the number of file descriptors and no longer have a
>>>> file descriptor issue. However the node still doesn't compact
>>>> automatically. If I run a 'nodetool compact' it will do a small amount of
>>>> compaction and then stop. The Column Family is using LCS
>>>>
>>>
>>> Any ideas on this - compaction is still not automatically running for
>>> one of my nodes
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> cheers
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> =Rob
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> *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
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
> --
> *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
>
>
>


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