Nate, how does this get around the issue? I'm guessing that just extends the timeout, but if I had a server failure such that the server was down for a couple hours, truncate would still have issues?
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Nate McCall <n...@thelastpickle.com> wrote: > > > > Truncate would have been the tool of choice, however my understanding is > truncate fails unless all nodes are up and running which makes it a > non-workable choice since we can't determine when failures will occur. > > > > You can get around this via: > - in cassandra.yaml, turning up "truncate_request_timeout_in_ms" to 10 > minutes > - stopping all compactions: nodetool stop > [compaction|validation|cleanup|scrub|index_build] (that's 5 commands total) > > > > -- > ----------------- > Nate McCall > Austin, TX > @zznate > > Co-Founder & Sr. Technical Consultant > Apache Cassandra Consulting > http://www.thelastpickle.com >
