After bootstrapping a node, the node repeatedly compacts the same tables over
and over, even though my cluster is completely idle. I’ve noticed the same
behavior after extended periods of heavy writes. I realize that during
bootstrapping (or extended periods of heavy writes) that compaction
Are you using Leveled compaction strategy? If you fall behind on
compaction in leveled (and you will during bootstrap), by default Cassandra
will fall back to size tiered compaction in level 0. This will cause
SSTables larger than sstable_size_in_mb, and those will be recompacted away
into level
Are you using Leveled compaction strategy?
And if you're using Date Tiered compaction strategy on a table that
isn't time-series data, for example deletes happen, you find it
compacting over and over.
~mck
