On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 9:47 AM Oleksandr Shulgin < oleksandr.shul...@zalando.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 9:31 AM Steinmaurer, Thomas < > thomas.steinmau...@dynatrace.com> wrote: > >> As far as I remember, in newer Cassandra versions, with STCS, nodetool >> compact offers a ‘-s’ command-line option to split the output into files >> with 50%, 25% … in size, thus in this case, not a single largish SSTable >> anymore. By default, without -s, it is a single SSTable though. >> > > Thanks Thomas, I've also spotted the option while testing this approach. > Yet another surprising aspect of using `nodetool compact` is that it triggers major compaction on *all* nodes in the cluster at the same time. I don't see where this is documented and this was contrary to my expectation. Does this behavior make sense to anyone? Is this a bug? The version is 3.0. -- Alex
