Bowen, Fabien, Stéphane, and Luciano,
A bit more information here...
We have not run incremental repairs, and we have not made any changes to the
compression properties on the tables.
When we first started the database the TTL on the records was set to 0 but not
it is set to 10 days.
We do have one table in a keyspace that is occupying 84.1GB of disk space:
ls -l /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/table1
…
-rw-rw-r--. 1 xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx 84145170181 Mar 18 08:28 nb-163033-big-Data.db
…
Regards,
William Crowell
From: William Crowell via user <user@cassandra.apache.org>
Date: Friday, March 14, 2025 at 10:53 AM
To: user@cassandra.apache.org <user@cassandra.apache.org>
Cc: William Crowell <wcrow...@perforce.com>, Bowen Song <bo...@bso.ng>
Subject: Re: Increased Disk Usage After Upgrading From Cassandra 3.x.x to 4.1.3
Bowen,
This is just a single Cassandra node. Unfortunately, I cannot get on the box
at the moment, but the following configuration is in cassandra.yaml:
snapshot_before_compaction: false
auto_snapshot: true
incremental_backups: false
The only other configuration parameter that had been changed other than the
keystore and truststore was num_tokens (default: 16):
num_tokens: 256
I also noticed the compression ratio on the largest table is not good:
0.566085855123187
Regards,
William Crowell
From: Bowen Song via user <user@cassandra.apache.org>
Date: Friday, March 14, 2025 at 10:13 AM
To: William Crowell via user <user@cassandra.apache.org>
Cc: Bowen Song <bo...@bso.ng>
Subject: Re: Increased Disk Usage After Upgrading From Cassandra 3.x.x to 4.1.3
A few suspects:
* snapshots, which could've been created automatically, such as by dropping or
truncating tables when auto_snapshots is set to true, or compaction when
snapshot_before_compaction is set to true
* backups, which could've been created automatically, e.g. when
incremental_backups is set to true
* mixing repaired and unrepaired sstables, which is usually caused by
incremental repairs, even if it had only been ran once
* partially upgraded cluster, e.g. mixed Cassandra version in the same cluster
* token ring change (e.g. adding or removing nodes) without "nodetool cleanup"
* actual increase in data size
* changes made to the compression table properties
To find the root cause, you will need to check the file/folder sizes to find
out what is using the extra disk space, and may also need to review the
cassandra.yaml file (or post it here with sensitive information removed) and
any actions you've made to the cluster prior to the first appearance of the
issue.
Also, manually running major compactions is no advised.
On 12/03/2025 20:26, William Crowell via user wrote:
Hi. A few months ago, I upgraded a single node Cassandra instance from version
3 to 4.1.3. This instance is not very large with about 15 to 20 gigabytes of
data on version 3, but after the update it has went substantially up to over
100gb. I do a compaction once a week and take a snapshot, but with the
increase in data it makes the compaction a much lengthier process. I also did
a sstableupate as part of the upgrade. Any reason for the increased size of
the database on the file system?
I am using the default STCS compaction strategy. My “nodetool cfstats” on a
heavily used table looks like this:
Keyspace : xxxxxxxx
Read Count: 48089
Read Latency: 12.52872569610514 ms
Write Count: 1616682825
Write Latency: 0.0067135265490310386 ms
Pending Flushes: 0
Table: sometable
SSTable count: 13
Old SSTable count: 0
Space used (live): 104005524836
Space used (total): 104005524836
Space used by snapshots (total): 0
Off heap memory used (total): 116836824
SSTable Compression Ratio: 0.566085855123187
Number of partitions (estimate): 14277177
Memtable cell count: 81033
Memtable data size: 13899174
Memtable off heap memory used: 0
Memtable switch count: 13171
Local read count: 48089
Local read latency: NaN ms
Local write count: 1615681213
Local write latency: 0.005 ms
Pending flushes: 0
Percent repaired: 0.0
Bytes repaired: 0.000KiB
Bytes unrepaired: 170.426GiB
Bytes pending repair: 0.000KiB
Bloom filter false positives: 125
Bloom filter false ratio: 0.00494
Bloom filter space used: 24656936
Bloom filter off heap memory used: 24656832
Index summary off heap memory used: 2827608
Compression metadata off heap memory used: 89352384
Compacted partition minimum bytes: 73
Compacted partition maximum bytes: 61214
Compacted partition mean bytes: 11888
Average live cells per slice (last five minutes): NaN
Maximum live cells per slice (last five minutes): 0
Average tombstones per slice (last five minutes): NaN
Maximum tombstones per slice (last five minutes): 0
Dropped Mutations: 0
Droppable tombstone ratio: 0.04983
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