On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Paulo Ricardo Motta Gomes < paulo.mo...@chaordicsystems.com> wrote:
> Sorry for being persistent, but I'd love to clear my understanding on > this. Has anyone seen single sstable compaction being triggered for STCS > sstables with high tombstone ratio? > > Because if the above understanding is correct, the current implementation > almost never triggers this kind of compaction, since the token ranges of a > node's sstable almost always overlap. Could this be a bug or is it expected > behavior? > Unfortunately, this is probably a better question for either the cassandra-dev mailing list or the Apache JIRA issues tracker or #cassandra. I would not at all be surprised if STCS + opportunistic compaction + vnodes has an edge case like this. =Rob