Manual compaction for LCS doesn't really do much. It certainly doesn't compact all those little files into bigger files. What makes you think that compactions are not occurring?
-Bryan On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Franc Carter <franc.car...@sirca.org.au>wrote: > On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Franc Carter > <franc.car...@sirca.org.au>wrote: > >> On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com>wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Franc Carter <franc.car...@sirca.org.au> >>> wrote: >>> > We are running a test system with Leveled compaction on >>> Cassandra-1.2.4. >>> > While doing an initial load of the data one of the nodes ran out of >>> file >>> > descriptors and since then it hasn't been automatically compacting. >>> >>> You have (at least) two options : >>> >>> 1) increase file descriptors available to Cassandra with ulimit, if >>> possible >>> 2) increase the size of your sstables with levelled compaction, such >>> that you have fewer of them >>> >> >> Oops, I wasn't clear enough. >> >> I have increased the number of file descriptors and no longer have a file >> descriptor issue. However the node still doesn't compact automatically. If >> I run a 'nodetool compact' it will do a small amount of compaction and then >> stop. The Column Family is using LCS >> > > Any ideas on this - compaction is still not automatically running for one > of my nodes > > thanks > > >> >> cheers >> >> >>> >>> =Rob >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> *Franc Carter* | Systems architect | Sirca Ltd >> <marc.zianideferra...@sirca.org.au> >> >> franc.car...@sirca.org.au | www.sirca.org.au >> >> Tel: +61 2 8355 2514 >> >> Level 4, 55 Harrington St, The Rocks NSW 2000 >> >> PO Box H58, Australia Square, Sydney NSW 1215 >> >> >> > > > -- > > *Franc Carter* | Systems architect | Sirca Ltd > <marc.zianideferra...@sirca.org.au> > > franc.car...@sirca.org.au | www.sirca.org.au > > Tel: +61 2 8355 2514 > > Level 4, 55 Harrington St, The Rocks NSW 2000 > > PO Box H58, Australia Square, Sydney NSW 1215 > > >
