On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:14 PM, A J <s5a...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK. Is it also driven by type of compaction ? Does a minor compaction > require less working space than major compaction ? >
No, every so often a minor compaction ends up compacting all SSTables, so it's effectively the same as a major compaction. -- Tyler Hobbs Software Engineer, DataStax <http://datastax.com/> Maintainer of the pycassa <http://github.com/pycassa/pycassa> Cassandra Python client library
