On 19 September 2013 10:31, Rene Kochen <rene.koc...@schange.com> wrote:
I use Cassandra 1.0.11 > > If I do cfstats for a particular column family, I see a "Compacted row > maximum size" of 43388628 > > However, when I do a cfhistograms I do not see such a big row in the Row > Size column. The biggest row there is 126934. > > Can someone explain this? > The 'Row Size' column is showing the number of rows that have a size indicated by the value in the 'Offset' column. So if your output is like Offset Row Size 1131752 10 1358102 100 It means you have 100 rows with size between 1131752 and 1358102 bytes. It doesn't mean there are rows of size 100. Richard.