Another question on this topic. Would forcing the table to relevel help this situation? I believe the process to do this on 1.1.X would be to stop cassandra, remove .json file, and restart cassandra. Is this true?
Any help would be appreciated, Thanks, -Mike On Sep 12, 2013, at 6:47 PM, Michael Theroux wrote: > Hello, > > We've been undergoing a migration on Cassandra 1.1.9 where we are combining > two column families. We are incrementally moving data from one column family > into another, where the columns in a row in the source column family are > being appended to columns in a row in the target column family. Both column > families are using leveled compaction, and both column families have over 100 > million rows. > > However, our bloom filters on the target column family grow dramatically > (less than double) after converting less than 1/4 of the data. I assume this > is because new changes are not being compacted with older changes, although I > thought leveled compaction would mitigate this for me. Any advice on what we > can do to control our bloom filter growth during this migration? > > Appreciate the help, > Thanks, > -Mike