In my tests I have seen repair sometimes take a lot of space (2-3 times), cleanup did not clean it, the only way I could clean that was using major compaction.
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Yan Chunlu <springri...@gmail.com> wrote: > while doing repair on node3, the "Load" keep increasing, suddenly cassandra > has encountered OOM, and the "Load" stopped at 140GB, after cassandra came > back, I tried node cleanup but it seems not working.... > > does node repair generate many temp sstables? how to get rid of them? > thanks! > > Address Status State Load Owns Token > > > 113427455640312821154458202477256070484 > node1 Up Normal 43 GB 33.33% 0 > > node2 Up Normal 59.52 GB 33.33% > 56713727820156410577229101238628035242 > node3 Down Normal 142.57 GB 33.33% > 113427455640312821154458202477256070484 >