[CASSANDRA-3342] cassandra-cli allows setting min_compaction_threshold to 1

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.8, 1.0.1
• Component/s: Legacy/Tools

Environment

Linux 2.6.32-131.6.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jun 20 14:15:38 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux (RHEL 6)

• Severity: Normal
• Assignee: Pavel Yaskevich
• Reporter: Jason Baker

Authors

Pavel Yaskevich

Reviewers

Brandon Williams

• Created: 11/Oct/11 01:01
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:32
• Resolved: 14/Oct/11 21:38

Description

{{
[root@Apture] update column family MagicLinks with min_compaction_threshold=1 and max_compaction_threshold=20;
b98e3b80-f3a3-11e0-0000-76abb4a6dbbf
Waiting for schema agreement...
... schemas agree across the cluster
}}

I'm told that a min_compaction_threshold of 1 is nonsensical. I had a spell where my servers stopped doing compactions. Once I upped the min_compaction_threshold, they started compacting again. I'm unable to confirm for sure that this was the case.