Hi all, I am running C* 1.2.13 with Vnodes at around 1 TB / node. I just noticed that one of my larger LCS CFs (300-400 GB/Node) is showing a droppable tombstone ration of between 23 and 28% on my nodes. I did not indicate a value to be used in my table creation so I assume its using the default 20%. Note that I utilize TTLs somewhat heavily on this table with most between 7 and 28 days against CQL3 collections (maps to be specific). Couple of questions:
- Given compactions are not falling behind on my nodes, I would have expected my ratio to be much closer to the default value of 20%. Have others seen this behavior? - Again given that compactions are not falling behind, I am always up for recovering data space and that are interested in lowering the default value of 20%. The documentation suggests that it will not trigger a compaction for tombstones unless there are no compactions queued so I assume this would not have a negative impact? Thanks! On 8/21/13, 11:23 AM, "Yuki Morishita" <mor.y...@gmail.com> wrote: >Tamas, > >If there are rows with the same key in other SSTables, that rows won't >be deleted. >Tombstone compaction make guess if it can actually drop "safely" by >scanning overlap with other SSTables. >Do you have many rows in your large SSTable? >If you don't, then chance to run tombstone compaction may be low. > > >On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:33 AM, <tamas.fold...@thomsonreuters.com> >wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I ran upgradesstables as part of the Cassandra upgrade, before issuing >>the >> CQL alter command. >> >> According to the docs, SizeTieredCompactionStrategy is fine (that is >>what I >> used, and plan on continue using), and automatic tombstone compaction is >> available for it: >> >> >>http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/1.2/webhelp/index.html#ca >>ssandra/operations/ops_about_config_compact_c.html >> >> I just had to include the Œclass¹ in the alter statement, otherwise it >>would >> not accept my command. >> >> Is that not right? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Tamas >> >> >> >> From: Haithem Jarraya [mailto:a-hjarr...@expedia.com] >> Sent: 21. august 2013 16:24 >> To: user@cassandra.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Automatic tombstone compaction >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> do you mean LeveledCompactionStrategy? >> >> >> >> Also you will need to run nodetool upgradesstables [keyspace][cf_name] >> after changing the compaction strategy. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> Haithem Jarraya >> >> On 21 Aug 2013, at 15:15, tamas.fold...@thomsonreuters.com wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> After upgrading from 1.0 to 1.2, I wanted to make use of the automatic >> tombstone compaction feature, so using CQL3 I issued: >> >> >> >> ALTER TABLE versions WITH compaction = {'class' : >> 'SizeTieredCompactionStrategy', 'min_threshold' : 4, 'max_threshold' : >>32, >> 'tombstone_compaction_interval' : 1, 'tombstone_threshold' : '0.1'}; >> >> >> >> But I still see no trace that would suggest this works we had 60G of >>data >> with TTL=1week pushed a while ago to the test cluster, the majority of >>it >> should be expired & compacted away by now. Not sure if it is relevant, >>but >> this old data is in one ~60G file + I have a few smaller files with >>latest >> data in them. >> >> Looking at JMX: DroppableTombstoneRatio = 0.892076544, which seems to >>back >> my theory. >> >> Am I doing something wrong, or am I expecting the wrong thing? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Tamas >> >> >> >> > > > >-- >Yuki Morishita > t:yukim (http://twitter.com/yukim)