Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-cassandra-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 34097 invoked from network); 6 Aug 2010 07:44:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by 140.211.11.9 with SMTP; 6 Aug 2010 07:44:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 37678 invoked by uid 500); 6 Aug 2010 07:44:16 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-cassandra-user-archive@cassandra.apache.org Received: (qmail 37419 invoked by uid 500); 6 Aug 2010 07:44:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@cassandra.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: user@cassandra.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list user@cassandra.apache.org Received: (qmail 37411 invoked by uid 99); 6 Aug 2010 07:44:12 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:44:12 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.7 required=10.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (nike.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [209.85.212.44] (HELO mail-vw0-f44.google.com) (209.85.212.44) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:44:01 +0000 Received: by vws10 with SMTP id 10so6314399vws.31 for ; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:43:36 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.124.211 with SMTP id v19mr186538vcr.184.1281080616285; Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:43:36 -0700 (PDT) Sender: scode@scode.org Received: by 10.220.202.71 with HTTP; Fri, 6 Aug 2010 00:43:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [194.236.60.91] In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 09:43:36 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: xANV95jKsqUsQNYaToUACTpb6b4 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Cassandra disk space utilization WAY higher than I would expect From: Peter Schuller To: user@cassandra.apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org > One thing to keep in mind is that SSTables are not actually removed > from disk until the garbage collector has identified the relevant > in-memory structures as garbage (there is a note on the wiki about However I forgot that the 'load' reported by nodetool ring does not, I think, represent on-disk size. So nevermind on this bit. -- / Peter Schuller