thx, but i didn't do anything like removing/adding nodes. just did a "nodetool repair" after running for an hour or so on a clean install
________________________________________ From: Matthew Conway [m...@backupify.com] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 8:17 AM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: repair cause large number of SSTABLEs Maybe related to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1992 ? On Jan 27, 2011, at Thu Jan 27, 1:22 AM, B. Todd Burruss wrote: i ran out of file handles on the "repairing node" after doing nodetool repair - strange as i have never had this issue until using 0.7.0 (but i should say that i have not truly tested 0.7.0 until now.) up'ed the number of file handles, removed data, restarted nodes, then restarted my test. waited a little while. i have two keyspaces on the cluster, so i checked the number of SSTABLES in one of them before "nodetool repair" and i see 36 "data.db" files, spread over 11 column families. very reasonable.
