You could also have a look at the JMX forceUserDefinedCompaction call on a specific SSTable
> On 5 Nov 2015, at 21:56, K F <kf200...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Thanks Rob, I will look into checksstablegarbage utility. However, I don't > want to run major compaction as that would result in too big of a sstable. > > Regards, > K F > > From: Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com> > To: "user@cassandra.apache.org" <user@cassandra.apache.org>; K F > <kf200...@yahoo.com> > Sent: Thursday, November 5, 2015 1:53 PM > Subject: Re: Does nodetool cleanup clears tombstones in the CF? > > > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 12:56 PM, K F <kf200...@yahoo.com > <mailto:kf200...@yahoo.com>> wrote: > Quick question, in order for me to purge tombstones on particular nodes if I > run nodetool cleanup <keyspace> <column family name> will that help in > purging the tombstones from that node? > > cleanup is for removing data from ranges the node no longer owns. > > It is unrelated to tombstones. > > There are various approaches to cleaning up tombstones. A simple (if manual) > one is to use "checksstablegarbage" and user defined compaction. Even simpler > is to run a major compaction, but this has some downsides. > > =Rob > > >
