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From: Jonathan Ellis <jbellis@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 09:13:34 -0500
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Subject: Re: Why so many commitlogs ?
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commitlogs can be removed after _all_ the CFs they have data for have
been flushed.

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Anty <anty.rao@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi:all
> In my little cluter ,after i insert many many records into cassandra, there
> are hundreds of commit log files in commitlog log directory.
> is it normal ?
> I read the source code of commitlog , there shouldn't be so many commitlog
> log files .
> any clue will be appreciate.
>
> --
> Best Regards
> Anty Rao
>



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Jonathan Ellis
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co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support
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