> 1.2 w/ vnodes using LeveledCompactionStrategy, using 128 mb SSTables. If you are using LCS the amount of overwritten / deleted data left will be small.
Your row will be present in only 1 sstable per level. The number of levels is included in the output from nodetool cfstats on the sstable count line. It shows the number of sstables at each level. If you really want to know which sstables contain your row use either sstable2json or sstablekeys. Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton New Zealand @aaronmorton Co-Founder & Principal Consultant Apache Cassandra Consulting http://www.thelastpickle.com On 26/10/2013, at 9:20 am, Jasdeep Hundal <dsjas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Rob. > > Will checkout the tool you linked to. In our case it's definitely not the > tombstones hanging around since we write entire rows at once and the amount > of data in a row is far, far greater than the space a tombstone takes. > > Jasdeep > > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Jasdeep Hundal <dsjas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > After performing a large set of deletes on our cluster, a few hundred > gigabytes work (essentially cleaning out nearly all old data), we noticed > that nodetool reported about the same load as before. > > Tombstones are purgeable only after gc_grace_seconds has elapsed, and only if > all SSTables which contain fragments of that row are involved in the > compaction. > > With my understanding, running a repair should have triggered compactions > between SSTable files and reference counting on the subsequent restart of > cassandra on a node should have cleared the old files, but this did not > appear to happen. The load did not start going down until we were writing to > the cluster again. > > Repair is unrelated to minor compaction, except in that it creates new > SSTables via streaming, which may trigger minor compaction. > > I suspect that there are a few values hanging around in the old tables so the > references stayed intact, can anyone confirm this? > > Stop suspecting and measure with checksstablegarbage : > https://github.com/cloudian/support-tools > > What's a bit more important for me is being able to accurately report the > size of the "active" data set, since nodetool doesn't seem to be useful for > this. I use counters for reporting some of this, but is there a single source > of truth for this, especially since counters do occasionally miss updates. > > In very new versions of Cassandra, there is tracking of and metrics available > for what percentage of data in a SSTable is expired. > > =Rob > >
