On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 11:59 PM, Erick Ramirez <er...@ramirez.com.au> wrote:
> You should never run `nodetool compact` since this will result in a > massive SSTable that will almost never get compacted out or take a very > long time to get compacted out. > Respectfully disagree. There are various cases where nodetool compact will result in a small SSTable. There are other cases where one might wish to major compact and then stop the node and run sstablesplit. I agree that in modern Cassandra, if one has not made an error, one should rarely wish to run nodetool compact, but "never" is too strong. =Rob
