That is indeed how I read it. The maximal size is 3 rows with an offset of 126934, while cfstats reports 43388628.
Thanks, Rene 2013/9/19 Richard Low <rich...@wentnet.com> > 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. >