system.size_estimates - safe to remove sstables?

2018-03-04 Thread Kunal Gangakhedkar
Hi all, I have a 2-node cluster running cassandra 2.1.18. One of the nodes has run out of disk space and died - almost all of it shows up as occupied by size_estimates CF. Out of 296GiB, 288GiB shows up as consumed by size_estimates in 'du -sh' output. This is while the other node is chugging

Please give input or approval of JIRA 14128 so we can continue document cleanup

2018-03-04 Thread Kenneth Brotman
Two months ago Kurt Greaves cleaned up the home page of the website which currently has broken links and other issues. We need to get that JIRA rapped up. Further improvements, scores of them are coming. Get ready! Please take time soon to review the patch he submitted.

Re: Cassandra 2.1.18 - Concurrent nodetool repair resulting in > 30K SSTables for a single small (GBytes) CF

2018-03-04 Thread kurt greaves
Repairs with vnodes is likely to cause a lot of small SSTables if you have inconsistencies (at least 1 per vnode). Did you have any issues when adding nodes, or did you add multiple nodes at a time? Anything that could have lead to a bit of inconsistency could have been the cause. I'd probably

Row cache functionality - Some confusion

2018-03-04 Thread Hannu Kröger
Hello, I am trying to verify and understand fully the functionality of row cache in Cassandra. I have been using mainly two different sources for information: