Hi, We have a 6-node cassandra cluster that got into an unstable state because a few servers were very low on Java heap space for a while. This resulted in them flushing an SSTable to disk for almost every write, such that some column families ended up with 1000+ SSTables, most of which contain between 1 and 10 rows each. The memory problem is solved now, and the cluster serves reads & writes fine, but it doesn't seem to be possible to compact this huge number of SSTables. If we try to run a major compaction, Cassandra dies with an OutOfMemoryException, probably because opening an SSTable brings quite some memory overhead? Increasing the heap by 1GB didn't help either.
Would it be possible to trigger a manual partial compaction, to first compact 4x 256 tables? Could this be added to nodetool if it doesn't exist already? Best regards, Mathijs Vogelzang
