Re: nodetool repair uses insane amount of disk space

2012-08-17 Thread aaron morton
I would take a look at the replication: whats the RF per DC and what does nodetool ring say. It's hard (as in no recommended) to get NTS with rack allocation working correctly. Without know much more I would try to understand what the topology is and if it can be simplified. Additionally,

Re: nodetool repair uses insane amount of disk space

2012-08-17 Thread Jim Cistaro
...@thelastpickle.commailto:aa...@thelastpickle.com Reply-To: user@cassandra.apache.orgmailto:user@cassandra.apache.org Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:40:54 +1200 To: user@cassandra.apache.orgmailto:user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: nodetool repair uses insane amount of disk space I would take a look

Re: nodetool repair uses insane amount of disk space

2012-08-17 Thread Peter Schuller
How come a node would consume 5x its normal data size during the repair process? https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2699 It's likely a variation based on how out of synch you happen to be, and whether you have a neighbor that's also been repaired and bloated up already. My setup

nodetool repair uses insane amount of disk space

2012-08-16 Thread Michael Morris
Occasionally as I'm doing my regular anti-entropy repair I end up with a node that uses an exceptional amount of disk space (node should have about 5-6 GB of data on it, but ends up with 25+GB, and consumes the limited amount of disk space I have available) How come a node would consume 5x its

Re: nodetool repair uses insane amount of disk space

2012-08-16 Thread aaron morton
What version are using ? There were issues with repair using lots-o-space in 0.8.X, it's fixed in 1.X Cheers - Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 17/08/2012, at 2:56 AM, Michael Morris michael.m.mor...@gmail.com wrote: Occasionally

Re: nodetool repair uses insane amount of disk space

2012-08-16 Thread Michael Morris
Upgraded to 1.1.3 from 1.0.8 about 2 weeks ago. On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 5:57 PM, aaron morton aa...@thelastpickle.comwrote: What version are using ? There were issues with repair using lots-o-space in 0.8.X, it's fixed in 1.X Cheers - Aaron Morton Freelance Developer