> What's strange anyhow is that the GC period for these cfs expired some days > ago. I thought that a compaction would take care of these tombstones. I used > nodetool to "compact".
I think the confusion here is that GC when mentioned in terms of sstable removal refers to the JVM garbage collection. GCGraceSeconds with respect to tombstones is different, and refers to "garbage collecting" tombstones by removing them during compaction. -- / Peter Schuller
