As opposed to stopping compaction altogether, have you experimented with turning down compaction_throughput_mb_per_sec (16mb default) and/or explicitly setting concurrent_compactors (defaults to the number of cores, iirc).
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:58 AM, rash aroskar <rashmi.aros...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > In general leveled compaction are I/O heavy so when there are bunch of > writes do we need to stop leveled compactions at all? > I found the nodetool stop COMPACTION, which states it stops compaction > happening, does this work for any type of compaction? Also it states in > documents 'eventually cassandra restarts the compaction', isn't there a way > to control when to start the compaction again manually ? > If this is not applicable for leveled compactions in 1.2, then what can be > used for stopping/restating those? > > > > Thanks, > Rashmi >
