Oh! That's obviously the exact same issue. I didn't find this thread while searching about my issue.

We will upgrade.

Thanks for the link.

2012/11/14 aaron morton <aaron@thelastpickle.com>

May be https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4561

Can you upgrade to 1.1.6 ? 

Cheers

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Aaron Morton

Freelance Cassandra Developer

New Zealand

@aaronmorton

http://www.thelastpickle.com

On 14/11/2012, at 11:39 PM, Alain RODRIGUEZ <arodrime@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, I am running C* 1.1.2 and there is no way to turn the compression on for a CF.

Here is the command I ran in the CLI:

UPDATE COLUMN FAMILY data_action WITH compression_options={sstable_compression:SnappyCompressor, chunk_length_kb : 64};

Show schema :

create column family data_action

  with column_type = 'Standard'

  and comparator = 'UTF8Type'

  and default_validation_class = 'UTF8Type'

  and key_validation_class = 'UTF8Type'

  and read_repair_chance = 1.0

  and dclocal_read_repair_chance = 0.0

  and gc_grace = 864000

  and min_compaction_threshold = 4

  and max_compaction_threshold = 32

  and replicate_on_write = true

  and compaction_strategy = 'org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.SizeTieredCompactionStrategy'

  and caching = 'KEYS_ONLY';

I tried also through cqlsh without success ("ALTER TABLE data_action WITH compression_parameters:sstable_compression = 'SnappyCompressor' AND compression_parameters:chunk_length_kb = 64;")

I have no error message just these few lines on system.log:

INFO 10:17:12,051 Completed flushing /raid0/cassandra/data/system/schema_columnfamilies/system-schema_columnfamilies-hd-20-Data.db (1367 bytes) for commitlog position ReplayPosition(segmentId=721932060965088, position=116556860)

 INFO 10:17:12,052 Compacting [SSTableReader(path='/raid0/cassandra/data/system/schema_columnfamilies/system-schema_columnfamilies-hd-20-Data.db'), SSTableReader(path='/raid0/cassandra/data/system/schema_columnfamilies/system-schema_columnfamilies-hd-19-Data.db'), SSTableReader(path='/raid0/cassandra/data/system/schema_columnfamilies/system-schema_columnfamilies-hd-17-Data.db'), SSTableReader(path='/raid0/cassandra/data/system/schema_columnfamilies/system-schema_columnfamilies-hd-18-Data.db')]

 INFO 10:17:12,134 Compacted to [/raid0/cassandra/data/system/schema_columnfamilies/system-schema_columnfamilies-hd-21-Data.db,].  50,928 to 46,827 (~91% of original) bytes for 3 keys at 0.544606MB/s.  Time: 82ms.

I also tried upgrading sstables but compression is definitely not enabled (same size of data + JMX show a CompressionRatio of 0.0).

Does anyone already saw something similar ?

Alain