Yes after a while the disk fills up again. So I changed the compaction strategy from 'sized tiered' to 'leveled' to reduce the disk usage when compacting, but the problem still occurs.
This table has lots of write and a relative very small read, and no update. here is the schema of the table: CREATE TABLE mydb.images ( image_id uuid PRIMARY KEY, available boolean, message text, raw_data blob, time_created timestamp, url text ) WITH bloom_filter_fp_chance=0.010000 AND caching='KEYS_ONLY' AND comment='' AND dclocal_read_repair_chance=0.000000 AND gc_grace_seconds=864000 AND read_repair_chance=0.100000 AND replicate_on_write='true' AND populate_io_cache_on_flush='false' AND compaction={'sstable_size_in_mb': '192', 'class': 'LeveledCompactionStrategy'} AND compression={'sstable_compression': 'LZ4Compressor'}; On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 4:31 PM, DuyHai Doan <doanduy...@gmail.com> wrote: > And after a while the /data6 drive fills up again right ? > > One question, can you please give the CQL3 definition of your > "mydb-images-tmp" > table ? > > What is the access pattern for this table ? Lots of write ? Lots of update > ? > > > > > On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Yatong Zhang <bluefl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> after restarting or 'cleanup' the big tmp file has gone and all looks >> like fine: >> >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19K Apr 30 13:58 >>> mydb_oe-images-tmp-jb-96242-CompressionInfo.db >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 145M Apr 30 13:58 >>> mydb_oe-images-tmp-jb-96242-Data.db >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64K Apr 30 13:58 >>> mydb_oe-images-tmp-jb-96242-Index.db >>> >> >> [root@node5 images]# df -hl >> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >> /dev/sda1 49G 7.5G 39G 17% / >> tmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev/shm >> /dev/sda3 3.6T 1.3T 2.1T 38% /data1 >> /dev/sdb1 3.6T 1.4T 2.1T 39% /data2 >> /dev/sdc1 3.6T 466G 3.0T 14% /data3 >> /dev/sdd1 3.6T 1.3T 2.2T 38% /data4 >> /dev/sde1 3.6T 1.3T 2.2T 38% /data5 >> /dev/sdf1 3.6T 662M 3.4T 1% /data6 >> >> I didn't perform repair, not even for one time >> >> >> On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 2:37 PM, DuyHai Doan <doanduy...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hello Yatong >>> >>> "If I restart the node or using 'cleanup', it will resume to normal." >>> --> what does df -hl shows for /data6 when you restart or cleanup the node ? >>> >>> By the way, a single SSTable of 3.6Tb is kind of huge. Do you perform >>> manual repair frequently ? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 1:51 AM, Yatong Zhang <bluefl...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> My Cassandra cluster has plenty of free space, for now only about 30% >>>> of space are used >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 6:36 AM, Yatong Zhang <bluefl...@gmail.com>wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi there, >>>>> >>>>> It was strange that the 'xxx-tmp-xxx.db' file kept increasing until >>>>> Cassandra throw exceptions with 'No space left on device'. I am using CQL >>>>> 3 >>>>> to create a table to store data about 200K ~ 500K per record. I have 6 >>>>> harddisks per node and cassandra was configured with 6 data >>>>> directories(ext4 file systems, Centos 6.5): >>>>> >>>>> data_file_directories: >>>>>> - /data1/cass >>>>>> - /data2/cass >>>>>> - /data3/cass >>>>>> - /data4/cass >>>>>> - /data5/cass >>>>>> - /data6/cass >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> And every directory is on a standalone disk. But I just found when the >>>>> error occurred: >>>>> >>>>> [root@node5 images]# ll -hl >>>>>> total 3.6T >>>>>> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Jan 20 09:44 snapshots >>>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 456M Apr 30 13:42 >>>>>> mydb-images-tmp-jb-91068-CompressionInfo.db >>>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.5T Apr 30 13:42 >>>>>> mydb-images-tmp-jb-91068-Data.db >>>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 30 13:42 >>>>>> mydb-images-tmp-jb-91068-Filter.db >>>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.0G Apr 30 13:42 >>>>>> mydb-images-tmp-jb-91068-Index.db >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> [root@node5 images]# df -hl >>>>> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >>>>> /dev/sda1 49G 7.5G 39G 17% / >>>>> tmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev/shm >>>>> /dev/sda3 3.6T 1.3T 2.1T 38% /data1 >>>>> /dev/sdb1 3.6T 1.4T 2.1T 39% /data2 >>>>> /dev/sdc1 3.6T 466G 3.0T 14% /data3 >>>>> /dev/sdd1 3.6T 1.3T 2.2T 38% /data4 >>>>> /dev/sde1 3.6T 1.3T 2.2T 38% /data5 >>>>> /dev/sdf1 3.6T 3.6T 0 100% /data6 >>>>> >>>>> *mydb-images-tmp-jb-91068-Data.db *almost occupied all the disk space >>>>> (4T harddisk with 3.6T actual usable size) and the error looks like: >>>>> >>>>> INFO [FlushWriter:4174] 2014-05-04 05:15:15,744 Memtable.java (line >>>>>> 403) Completed flushing >>>>>> /data3/cass/system/compactions_in_progress/system-compactions_in_progress-jb-16942-Data.db >>>>>> (42 bytes) for commitlog position ReplayPosition(segmentId=1398900356204, >>>>>> position=25024609) >>>>>> INFO [CompactionExecutor:3689] 2014-05-04 05:15:15,745 >>>>>> CompactionTask.java (line 115) Compacting >>>>>> [SSTableReader(path='/data3/cass/system/compactions_in_progress/system-compactions_in_progress-jb-16940-Data.db'), >>>>>> SSTableReader(path='/data3/cass/system/compactions_in_progress/system-compactions_in_progress-jb-16942-Data.db'), >>>>>> SSTableReader(path='/data3/cass/system/compactions_in_progress/system-compactions_in_progress-jb-16941-Data.db'), >>>>>> SSTableReader(path='/data3/cass/system/compactions_in_progress/system-compactions_in_progress-jb-16939-Data.db')] >>>>>> ERROR [CompactionExecutor:1245] 2014-05-04 05:15:15,745 >>>>>> CassandraDaemon.java (line 198) Exception in thread >>>>>> Thread[CompactionExecutor:1245,1,main] >>>>>> FSWriteError in >>>>>> /data2/cass/mydb/images/mydb-images-tmp-jb-92181-Filter.db >>>>>> at >>>>>> org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableWriter$IndexWriter.close(SSTableWriter.java:475) >>>>>> at >>>>>> org.apache.cassandra.io.util.FileUtils.closeQuietly(FileUtils.java:212) >>>>>> at >>>>>> org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableWriter.abort(SSTableWriter.java:301) >>>>>> at >>>>>> org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.CompactionTask.runWith(CompactionTask.java:209) >>>>>> at >>>>>> org.apache.cassandra.io.util.DiskAwareRunnable.runMayThrow(DiskAwareRunnable.java:48) >>>>>> at >>>>>> org.apache.cassandra.utils.WrappedRunnable.run(WrappedRunnable.java:28) >>>>>> at >>>>>> org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.CompactionTask.executeInternal(CompactionTask.java:60) >>>>>> at >>>>>> org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.AbstractCompactionTask.execute(AbstractCompactionTask.java:59) >>>>>> at >>>>>> org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.CompactionManager$BackgroundCompactionTask.run(CompactionManager.java:197) >>>>>> at >>>>>> java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) >>>>>> at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262) >>>>>> at >>>>>> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) >>>>>> at >>>>>> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) >>>>>> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) >>>>>> Caused by: java.io.IOException: No space left on device >>>>>> at java.io.FileOutputStream.write(Native Method) >>>>>> at java.io.FileOutputStream.write(FileOutputStream.java:295) >>>>>> at >>>>>> java.io.DataOutputStream.writeInt(DataOutputStream.java:197) >>>>>> at >>>>>> org.apache.cassandra.utils.BloomFilterSerializer.serialize(BloomFilterSerializer.java:34) >>>>>> at >>>>>> org.apache.cassandra.utils.Murmur3BloomFilter$Murmur3BloomFilterSerializer.serialize(Murmur3BloomFilter.java:44) >>>>>> at >>>>>> org.apache.cassandra.utils.FilterFactory.serialize(FilterFactory.java:41) >>>>>> at >>>>>> org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableWriter$IndexWriter.close(SSTableWriter.java:468) >>>>>> ... 13 more >>>>>> ERROR [CompactionExecutor:1245] 2014-05-04 05:15:15,800 >>>>>> StorageService.java (line 367) Stopping gossiper >>>>>> WARN [CompactionExecutor:1245] 2014-05-04 05:15:15,800 >>>>>> StorageService.java (line 281) Stopping gossip by operator request >>>>>> INFO [CompactionExecutor:1245] 2014-05-04 05:15:15,800 Gossiper.java >>>>>> (line 1271) Announcing shutdown >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I have changed my table to "LeveledCompactionStrategy" to reduce the >>>>> disk size needed when compaction, with: >>>>> >>>>> ALTER TABLE images WITH compaction = { 'class' : >>>>>> 'LeveledCompactionStrategy', 'sstable_size_in_mb' : '192' }; >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> But the problem still exists: the file keep increasing, and after >>>>> about 2 or 3 days cassandra will fail due to 'No space left on device' >>>>> error. If I restart the node or using 'cleanup', it will resume to >>>>> normal. >>>>> >>>>> I don't know is it because my configuration or it's just a bug, so >>>>> would any one please help to solve this issue? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >