On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Jonathan Colby <jonathan.co...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the explanation. I'm still a bit "skeptical". > > So if you really needed to control the maximum size of compacted SSTables, > you need to delete data at such a rate that the new files created by > compaction are less than or equal to the sum of the segments being merged. > > Is anyone else running into really large compacted SSTables that gave you > trouble with hard disk capacity? How did you deal with it? > > We have 1 TB disks in our nodes, but keeping in mind we need to have at least > 50% for the worst case compaction scenario I'm still a bit worried that one > day we're going to hit a dead end.
You should stripe those disks together with RAID-0. -ryan
