Hi, Would it not be possible that in some rare cases these 'small' files are created also and thus resulting in the same endless loop behavior? Like a storm on the server make the memtables flushing. When the storm lies down, the compaction then would have the same problem?
Regards, Ignace -----Original Message----- From: Desimpel, Ignace Sent: dinsdag 12 november 2013 09:32 To: 'Chris Burroughs' Subject: RE: Endless loop LCS compaction I think that regardless the size, the code should not go into an endless loop. -----Original Message----- From: Chris Burroughs [mailto:chris.burrou...@gmail.com] Sent: vrijdag 8 november 2013 16:49 To: user@cassandra.apache.org Cc: Desimpel, Ignace Subject: Re: Endless loop LCS compaction On 11/07/2013 06:48 AM, Desimpel, Ignace wrote: > Total data size is only 3.5GB. Column family was created with SSTableSize : > 10 MB You may want to try a significantly larger size. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5727