http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/topic/cassandra-maintenance Software, Support, and Training for Apache Cassandra en-US Thu, 23 May 2013 20:57:15 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.3 q http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/search.php http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/topic/cassandra-maintenance#post-447 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:44:34 +0000 Nadavd 447@http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/ <p>Hi,<br /> We have Cassandra version 0.7.5 with 8 node cluster.<br /> The Cassandra is located on server with 24GB and 8 cores CPU.<br /> Each day the Cassandra write 10 million rows every 6 days we delete the last day.<br /> We want to run a compact maintenance, today every day we run Repair on each node and after that Clean.<br /> While we running Repair and Clean we've noticed that the database is grow too much.<br /> After the Repair and Clean finished we can see that the database growing almost double.</p> <p>What are the steps to run the preparation for the maintenance work?<br /> What are the commands that need to be run to compact the data and save space?</p> <p>Please help...</p> <p>Thanks,<br /> Nadav </p>