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Tomas Salfischberger commented on CASSANDRA-6092:
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Update: The workaround to call "nodetool compact" only works when there is at
least some activity, causing there to be more than 1 sstable. I've just tested
with a cluster that was not receiving any reads nor writes. In that case
calling "nodetool compact" does not do anything, so there is no way to work
around this when there are no writes at all. Maybe it's worth adding a special
case of ignoring the tombstone ratio threshold for single sstable compaction in
the case of explicitly calling nodetool compact?
> Leveled Compaction after ALTER TABLE creates pending but does not actually
> begin
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>
> Key: CASSANDRA-6092
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6092
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Environment: Cassandra 1.2.10
> Oracle Java 1.7.0_u40
> RHEL6.4
> Reporter: Karl Mueller
> Assignee: Daniel Meyer
>
> Running Cassandra 1.2.10. N=5, RF=3
> On this Column Family (ProductGenomeDev/Node), it's been major compacted into
> a single, large sstable.
> There's no activity on the table at the time of the ALTER command. I changed
> it to Leveled Compaction with the command below.
> cqlsh:ProductGenomeDev> alter table "Node" with compaction = { 'class' :
> 'LeveledCompactionStrategy', 'sstable_size_in_mb' : 160 };
> Log entries confirm the change happened.
> [...]column_metadata={},compactionStrategyClass=class
> org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.LeveledCompactionStrategy,compactionStrategyOptions={sstable_size_in_mb=160}
> [...]
> nodetool compactionstats shows pending compactions, but there's no activity:
> pending tasks: 750
> 12 hours later, nothing has still happened, same number pending. The
> expectation would be that compactions would proceed immediately to convert
> everything to Leveled Compaction as soon as the ALTER TABLE command goes.
> I try a simple write into the CF, and then flush the nodes. This kicks off
> compaction on 3 nodes. (RF=3)
> cqlsh:ProductGenomeDev> insert into "Node" (key, column1, value) values
> ('test123', 'test123', 'test123');
> cqlsh:ProductGenomeDev> select * from "Node" where key = 'test123';
> key | column1 | value
> ---------+---------+---------
> test123 | test123 | test123
> cqlsh:ProductGenomeDev> delete from "Node" where key = 'test123';
> After a flush on every node, now I see:
> [cassandra@dev-cass00 ~]$ cas exec nt compactionstats
> *** dev-cass00 (0) ***
> pending tasks: 750
> Active compaction remaining time : n/a
> *** dev-cass04 (0) ***
> pending tasks: 752
> compaction type keyspace column family completed
> total unit progress
> CompactionProductGenomeDev Node 3413333881
> 643290447928 bytes 0.53%
> Active compaction remaining time : n/a
> *** dev-cass01 (0) ***
> pending tasks: 750
> Active compaction remaining time : n/a
> *** dev-cass02 (0) ***
> pending tasks: 751
> compaction type keyspace column family completed
> total unit progress
> CompactionProductGenomeDev Node 3374975141
> 642764512481 bytes 0.53%
> Active compaction remaining time : n/a
> *** dev-cass03 (0) ***
> pending tasks: 751
> compaction type keyspace column family completed
> total unit progress
> CompactionProductGenomeDev Node 3591320948
> 643017643573 bytes 0.56%
> Active compaction remaining time : n/a
> After inserting and deleting more columns, enough that all nodes have new
> data, and flushing, now compactions are proceeding on all nodes.
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