You cannot start level compaction. It will run based on data in each level.
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Nate McCall <n...@thelastpickle.com> wrote: > 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 >> > >
