Hmm that does sound fishy. When you run show keyspaces from cassandra-cli it shows which indexes are built. Are they marked built in your column family?
-Jake On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Maxim Potekhin <potek...@bnl.gov> wrote: > I understand that indexes are CFs. But the compaction stats says it's > building the > index, not compacting the corresponding CF. Either that's an ambiguous > diagnostic, > or indeed something is not right with my rig as of late. > > Maxim > > > > > On 4/17/2012 10:05 AM, Jake Luciani wrote: > > Well, the since the secondary indexes are themselves column families they > too are compacted along with everything else. > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Maxim Potekhin <potek...@bnl.gov> wrote: > >> Thanks Jake. Then I am definitely seeing weirdness, as there are tons of >> "pending tasks" in compaction stats, and tons of index files created in >> the >> data directory. Plus it does tell me that it is building the secondary >> index, >> and that seems to be happening at an amazingly glacial pace. >> >> I have 2 CFs there, with multiple secondary indexes. I'll try >> to compact the CF one by one, reboot and see if that helps. >> >> Maxim >> >> >> >> On 4/17/2012 9:53 AM, Jake Luciani wrote: >> >> No, the indexes are not rebuilt every compaction. Only if you manually >> rebuild or bootstrap a new node does it use compaction manager to rebuild. >> >> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Maxim Potekhin <potek...@bnl.gov> wrote: >> >>> Thanks Aaaron. Just to be clear, every time I do a compaction, >>> I rebuild all indexes from scratch. Right? >>> >>> Maxim >>> >>> >>> >>> On 4/17/2012 6:16 AM, aaron morton wrote: >>> >>> Yes secondary index builds are done via the compaction manager. >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> ----------------- >>> Aaron Morton >>> Freelance Developer >>> @aaronmorton >>> http://www.thelastpickle.com >>> >>> On 17/04/2012, at 1:06 PM, Maxim Potekhin wrote: >>> >>> I noticed that "nodetool compactionstats" shows the building of the >>> secondary index while >>> I initiate compaction. Is this to be expected? Cassandra version 0.8.8. >>> >>> Thank you >>> >>> Maxim >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> http://twitter.com/tjake >> >> >> > > > -- > http://twitter.com/tjake > > > -- http://twitter.com/tjake
