The patch you refer to was to help *compaction*, not *anticompaction*. If the space is mostly hints for other machines (is that what you meant by "due to past problems with others?") you should run nodeprobe cleanup on it to remove data that doesn't actually belong on that node.
-Jonathan On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:09 AM, shiv shivaji <shivaji...@yahoo.com> wrote: > For about 6TB of total data size with a replication factor of 2 (6TB x 2) > on a five node cluster, I see about 4.6 TB on one machine (due to potential > past problems with other machines). The machine has a disk of 6TB. > > The data folder on this machine has 59,289 files totally 4.6 TB. The files > are the data, filter and indexes. I see that anti-compaction is running. I > applied a recent patch which does not do anti-compaction if disk space is > limited. I still see it happening. I have also called nodetool loadbalance > on this machine. Seems like it will run out of disk space anyway. > > The machine diskspace consumed are: (Each machine has a 6TB hard-drive on > RAID). > > Machine Space Consumed > M1 4.47 TB > M2 2.93 TB > M3 1.83 GB > M4 56.19 GB > M5 398.01 GB > > How can I force M1 to immediately move its load to M3 and M4 for instance > (or any other machine). The nodetool move command moves all data, is there a > way instead to force move 50% of data to M3 and the remaining 50% to M4 and > resume anti-compaction after the move? > > Thanks, Shiv > > >
