"Will Cassandra force any newly compacted files to my new setting as compactions are naturally triggered" Yes. Let it compact and increase in size.
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:48 AM, Keith Wright <kwri...@nanigans.com>wrote: > >> Can you elaborate on what you mean by "let it take its own course >> organically"? Will Cassandra force any newly compacted files to my new >> setting as compactions are naturally triggered? >> > > You see, when two (or more!) SSTables love each other very much, they > sometimes decide they want to compact together.. > > But seriously, "yes." If you force all existing SSTables to level 0, it is > as if you just flushed them all. Level compaction then does a whole lot of > compaction, using the active table size. > > =Rob >
