Well, the since the secondary indexes are themselves column families they too are compacted along with everything else.
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Maxim Potekhin <potek...@bnl.gov> wrote: > Thanks Jake. Then I am definitely seeing weirdness, as there are tons of > "pending tasks" in compaction stats, and tons of index files created in the > data directory. Plus it does tell me that it is building the secondary > index, > and that seems to be happening at an amazingly glacial pace. > > I have 2 CFs there, with multiple secondary indexes. I'll try > to compact the CF one by one, reboot and see if that helps. > > Maxim > > > > On 4/17/2012 9:53 AM, Jake Luciani wrote: > > No, the indexes are not rebuilt every compaction. Only if you manually > rebuild or bootstrap a new node does it use compaction manager to rebuild. > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Maxim Potekhin <potek...@bnl.gov> wrote: > >> Thanks Aaaron. Just to be clear, every time I do a compaction, >> I rebuild all indexes from scratch. Right? >> >> Maxim >> >> >> >> On 4/17/2012 6:16 AM, aaron morton wrote: >> >> Yes secondary index builds are done via the compaction manager. >> >> Cheers >> >> ----------------- >> Aaron Morton >> Freelance Developer >> @aaronmorton >> http://www.thelastpickle.com >> >> On 17/04/2012, at 1:06 PM, Maxim Potekhin wrote: >> >> I noticed that "nodetool compactionstats" shows the building of the >> secondary index while >> I initiate compaction. Is this to be expected? Cassandra version 0.8.8. >> >> Thank you >> >> Maxim >> >> >> >> > > > -- > http://twitter.com/tjake > > > -- http://twitter.com/tjake
