See my other email to this list that you replied to (I most recently replied late last week), titled "Cassandra isn't compacting old files". It's not just a few. It's tens/hundreds. I'm worried there's some "starvation" going on and disk is being filled with data that could be compacted away.
On Monday, August 21, 2017, 4:21:47 PM PDT, kurt greaves <k...@instaclustr.com> wrote: Is there any specific reason you are trying to achieve this? It shouldn't really matter if you have a few SSTables in the unrepaired pool.
