13k pending compaction tasks but ZERO running?

2013-03-14 Thread Hiller, Dean
How do I get my node to run through the 13k pending compaction tasks? I had to use iptables to take the ring out of the cluster for now and he is my only node still on STCS. In cassandra-cli, it shows LCS but on disk, I see a 36Gig file(ie. Must be STCS still). How can I get the 13k pending

Re: 13k pending compaction tasks but ZERO running?

2013-03-14 Thread Michael Theroux
Hi Dean, I saw the same behavior when we switched from STCS to LCS on a couple of our tables. Not sure why it doesn't proceed immediately (I pinged the list, but didn't get any feedback). However, running nodetool compact keyspace table got things moving for me. -Mike On Mar 14, 2013, at

Re: 13k pending compaction tasks but ZERO running?

2013-03-14 Thread Michael Theroux
One more warning (which I'm sure you know, but in case others see this), nodetool compact does a major compaction for STS, and is in general, not recommended for STS. I only ran it on the tables we've converted to LCS. -Mike On Mar 14, 2013, at 11:26 AM, Michael Theroux wrote: Hi Dean, I

Re: 13k pending compaction tasks but ZERO running?

2013-03-14 Thread Wei Zhu
: Thursday, March 14, 2013 8:36:00 AM Subject: Re: 13k pending compaction tasks but ZERO running? Duh me. I forgot to mention I ran nodetool compact k cf and it was done in 45 seconds and I still had a 36G file(darn, I am usually better about putting the detail in my emailsÅ I thought I added that). I

Re: 13k pending compaction tasks but ZERO running?

2013-03-14 Thread Hiller, Dean
called $CFName.json ($CFName is your cf name) in your data directory? -Wei - Original Message - From: Dean Hiller dean.hil...@nrel.gov To: user@cassandra.apache.org Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 8:36:00 AM Subject: Re: 13k pending compaction tasks but ZERO running? Duh me. I forgot

Re: 13k pending compaction tasks but ZERO running?

2013-03-14 Thread Wei Zhu
. Did you see a file called $CFName.json ($CFName is your cf name) in your data directory? -Wei - Original Message - From: Dean Hiller dean.hil...@nrel.gov To: user@cassandra.apache.org Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 8:36:00 AM Subject: Re: 13k pending compaction tasks but ZERO running? Duh