On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 12:39 PM, David Chia <davyc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > It's not clear to me in the doc about cold_reads_to_omit. when > cold_reads_to_omit ignores low read rate sstables during compactions, what > would gc tombstones in those cold sstables? > If those tombstones apply to data that you're reading, then the sstable that holds them will be read. If there are enough of these reads, the sstable will get compacted. > Do we rely on tombstone compactions, which, I might misconfigured, I've > never seen tombstone compactions got kicked off? > We don't rely on tombstone compactions, but yes, they are one way that cold sstables may get compacted. -- Tyler Hobbs DataStax <http://datastax.com/>
