On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Parag Patel <ppa...@clearpoolgroup.com> wrote:
> 1) Should we bootstrap all 6 nodes first and then call clean up once > or should cleanup be called after each node is bootstrapped? > Call cleanup once after all nodes are bootstrapped (unless existing nodes are almost out of disk space, in which case you'll want to start reclaiming space more quickly). > 2) Is it safe to kill the cleanup call and expect it to resume the > next it’s called? > Kind of. Cassandra won't repeat any work for sstables that have already been cleaned up (it can tell if the SSTable has keys outside of its currently owned ranges), but if you interrupt cleanup when it's halfway through an SSTable, it will have to restart that one from the beginning. -- Tyler Hobbs DataStax <http://datastax.com/>
