The command to run in the shell is "compact --cancel -t table"
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 7:41 PM, Jeff Downton <jdown...@phemi.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > Is it possible to stop a major compaction once it has begun (Accumulo > 1.7.0)? > > Manually kicked one off on a table containing ~20k tablets, which > subsequently queued up ~20k major compactions (I'm assuming one for each > tablet in the table). > > It's running slower than I'd like so I'm looking to defer running it till > another time. The purpose for the major compaction is to permanently remove > deleted key-value pairs in the table. > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > -Jeff >