Do you have snapshot_before_compaction enabled? http://datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/2.0/cassandra/configuration/configCassandra_yaml_r.html#reference_ds_qfg_n1r_1k__snapshot_before_compaction
On Wed Dec 03 2014 at 10:25:12 AM Robert Wille <rwi...@fold3.com> wrote: > I built my first multi-node cluster and populated it with a bunch of data, > and ran out of space far more quickly than I expected. On one node, I ended > up with 76 snapshots, consuming a total of 220 GB of space. I only have 40 > GB of data. It took several snapshots per hour, sometimes within a minute > of each other. I don’t know why it would have any snapshots at all. I never > consciously asked it to take a snapshot. I didn’t truncate or drop any CF’s > or keyspaces or make any schema changes, and certainly not 76 times. > > Any idea what would have caused Cassandra to take all these snapshots, and > how I can make it stop? > > Thanks in advance > > Robert > >
