Re: Cassandra Files Taking up Much More Space than CF

2014-12-09 Thread Nate Yoder
I found several snapshots on my disk recently (which can take a lot of space). So perhaps they are automatically generated by some operation? No idea. Regardless, nuking those freed up a ton of space for me. - Ian On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Nate Yoder n...@whistle.com wrote: Hi

Re: Cassandra Files Taking up Much More Space than CF

2014-12-09 Thread Nate Yoder
, Jonathan Haddad j...@jonhaddad.com wrote: You don't need a prime number of nodes in your ring, but it's not a bad idea to it be a multiple of your RF when your cluster is small. On Tue Dec 09 2014 at 8:29:35 AM Nate Yoder n...@whistle.com wrote: Hi Ian, Thanks for the suggestion but I had

Re: Cassandra Files Taking up Much More Space than CF

2014-12-09 Thread Nate Yoder
and having only 1 copy of my data available in prod. On Tue Dec 09 2014 at 8:40:37 AM Nate Yoder n...@whistle.com wrote: Thanks Jonathan. So there is nothing too idiotic about my current set-up with 6 boxes each with 256 vnodes each and a RF of 2? I appreciate the help, Nate -- *Nathanael

Re: Cassandra Files Taking up Much More Space than CF

2014-12-09 Thread Nate Yoder
are stored in directories named backups at the same level as the snapshots' directories. Reynald On 09/12/2014 18:13, Nate Yoder wrote: Thanks for the advice. Totally makes sense. Once I figure out how to make my data stop taking up more than 2x more space without being useful I'll

Re: Cassandra Files Taking up Much More Space than CF

2014-12-09 Thread Nate Yoder
* Principal Engineer Data Scientist, Whistle 415-944-7344 // n...@whistle.com On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Nate Yoder n...@whistle.com wrote: Hi Reynald, Good idea but I have incremental backups turned off and other than *.db files nothing else appears to be in the data directory

Re: Cassandra Files Taking up Much More Space than CF

2014-12-09 Thread Nate Yoder
at 12:21 PM, Robert Coli rc...@eventbrite.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Nate Yoder n...@whistle.com wrote: I am currently running a 6 node Cassandra 2.1.1 cluster on EC2 using C3.2XLarge nodes which overall is working very well for us. However, after letting it run for a while I

Cassandra Files Taking up Much More Space than CF

2014-12-08 Thread Nate Yoder
Hi All, I am new to Cassandra so I apologise in advance if I have missed anything obvious but this one currently has me stumped. I am currently running a 6 node Cassandra 2.1.1 cluster on EC2 using C3.2XLarge nodes which overall is working very well for us. However, after letting it run for a