Bump on this. Anybody have any insight/need more info? On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Vidur Malik <vi...@shopkeep.com> wrote:
> Hey, > > We're running a Cassandra 2.2.0 cluster with 8 nodes. We are doing > frequent updates to our data and we have very few reads, and we are using > Leveled Compaction with a sstable_size_in_mb of 160MB. We don't have that > much data currently since we're just testing the cluster. > We are seeing the SSTable count linearly increase even though `nodetool > compactionhistory` shows that compaction have definitely ran. When I ran > nodetool cfstats, I get the following output: > > Table: tender_summaries > > SSTable count: 56 > > SSTables in each level: [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] > > Does it make sense that there is such a huge difference between the number > of SStables in each level and the total count of SStables? It seems like > old SSTables are lying around and never cleaned-up/compacted. Does this > theory sound plausible? If so, what could be the problem? > > Thanks! > -- Vidur Malik [image: ShopKeep] <http://www.shopkeep.com> 800.820.9814 <8008209814> [image: ShopKeep] <https://www.facebook.com/ShopKeepPOS> [image: ShopKeep] <https://twitter.com/shopkeep> [image: ShopKeep] <https://instagram.com/shopkeep/>
