I had a quick look at the code (1.1X) and could not see a facility to purge dropped cf's from key or row caches.
Could you create a ticket on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA ? Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 27/09/2012, at 9:58 PM, Tamar Fraenkel <ta...@tok-media.com> wrote: > Hi! > One more question: > I have couple of dropped column families, and in the JMX console I don't see > them under org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilies, BUT I do see them under > org.apache.cassandra.db.Caches, and the cache is not empty! > Does it mean that Cassandra still keep memory busy doing caching for a > non-existing column family? If so, how do I remove those caches? > > Thanks! > > Tamar Fraenkel > Senior Software Engineer, TOK Media > > <tokLogo.png> > > ta...@tok-media.com > Tel: +972 2 6409736 > Mob: +972 54 8356490 > Fax: +972 2 5612956 > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Tamar Fraenkel <ta...@tok-media.com> wrote: > Hi! > Is it possible that in JMX and cfstats the Key cache size is much bigger than > the number of keys in the CF? > Thanks, > > Tamar Fraenkel > Senior Software Engineer, TOK Media > > <tokLogo.png> > > ta...@tok-media.com > Tel: +972 2 6409736 > Mob: +972 54 8356490 > Fax: +972 2 5612956 > > > >
