Thanks Aaron for the perfect explanation. Decided to go with automatic compaction. Thanks again.
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:19 AM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com>wrote: > The issue with major / manual compaction is that it creates a one file. > One big old file. > > That one file will not be compacted unless there are > (min_compaction_threshold -1) other files of a similar size. So thombstones > and overwrites in that file may not be purged for a long time. > > If you go down the manual compaction path you need to keep doing it. > > If you feel you need to do it do it, otherwise let automatic compaction do > it's thing. > Cheers > > > ----------------- > Aaron Morton > Freelance Developer > @aaronmorton > http://www.thelastpickle.com > > On 25/01/2012, at 12:47 PM, Roshan wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. Is the major compaction not recommended for Cassandra > 1.0.6? > > -- > View this message in context: > http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/Different-size-of-SSTable-are-remain-in-the-system-without-compact-tp7218239p7222322.html > Sent from the cassandra-u...@incubator.apache.org mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > > >
