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Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 13:08:22 +0100
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Subject: Re: Huge amount of empty files in data directory.
From: Sylvain Lebresne <sylvain@datastax.com>
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It's a bug, namely: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3616
You'd want to upgrade.

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Sylvain

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Henrik Schr=F6der <skrolle@gmail.com> wrote=
:
> Hi,
>
> We're running Cassandra 1.0.6 on Windows, and noticed that the amount of
> files in the datadirectory just keeps growing. We have about 60GB of data
> per node, we do a major compaction about once a week, but after compactio=
n
> there's a lot of 0-byte temp files and old files that are kept for some
> reason. After 50 days of uptime there was around 50000 files in each
> datadirectory, but when we restarted a server it deleted all the unnecess=
ary
> files and it shrunk down to about 200 files.
>
> We're running without compression, and with the regular compaction strate=
gy,
> not leveldb. I don't remember seeing this behaviour in older versions of
> Cassandra, shouldn't it delete temp files while running? Is it possible t=
o
> force it to delete temp files while running? Is this fixed in a later
> version? Or do we have to periodically restart servers to clean up the
> datadirectories?
>
>
> /Henrik Schr=F6der