> Hi – I have around 6TB of data on 1 node Unless you have SSD and 10GbE you probably have too much data on there. Remember you need to run repair and that can take a long time with a lot of data. Also you may need to replace a node one day and moving 6TB will take a while.
> Or will the sstable compaction continue and eventually we will have 1 file ? No. The default size tiered strategy compacts files what are roughly the same size, and only when there are more than 4 (default) of them. Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer New Zealand @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 21/02/2013, at 3:47 AM, Kanwar Sangha <kan...@mavenir.com> wrote: > Hi – I have around 6TB of data on 1 node and the cfstats show 32 sstables. > There is no compaction job running in the background. Is there a limit on the > size per sstable ? Or will the sstable compaction continue and eventually we > will have 1 file ? > > Thanks, > Kanwar >
