So it won't increase beyond 8gb ish? On May 22, 2015 6:39 PM, "Sebastian Estevez" <sebastian.este...@datastax.com> wrote:
> Yes. 2.1 commitlogs are 8gb. 2.0 were 1gb. you can configure this in the > yaml. > > > http://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/1.2/cassandra/configuration/configCassandra_yaml_r.html?scroll=reference_ds_qfg_n1r_1k__commitlog_segment_size_in_mb > > All the best, > > > [image: datastax_logo.png] <http://www.datastax.com/> > > Sebastián Estévez > > Solutions Architect | 954 905 8615 | sebastian.este...@datastax.com > > [image: linkedin.png] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/datastax> [image: > facebook.png] <https://www.facebook.com/datastax> [image: twitter.png] > <https://twitter.com/datastax> [image: g+.png] > <https://plus.google.com/+Datastax/about> > <http://feeds.feedburner.com/datastax> > > <http://cassandrasummit-datastax.com/> > > DataStax is the fastest, most scalable distributed database technology, > delivering Apache Cassandra to the world’s most innovative enterprises. > Datastax is built to be agile, always-on, and predictably scalable to any > size. With more than 500 customers in 45 countries, DataStax is the > database technology and transactional backbone of choice for the worlds > most innovative companies such as Netflix, Adobe, Intuit, and eBay. > > On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 6:51 AM, Ali Akhtar <ali.rac...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have a single node c* server (used for dev). I've been playing around >> with it, inserting / removing several million rows. At the moment, all >> tables have been dropped / truncated, and the data directory itself is >> showing about 45mb used (most of it is probably in the OpsCenter tables >> rather than mine). >> >> However, the commitlog directory shows a size of 8.1g. Is that really >> normal? If this keeps up, I may run out of disk space due to the size of >> the commit log rather than because of data. >> >> I have run nodetool compact, but it didnt bring down the size. >> > >