[CASSANDRA-621] GC compacted sstables as part of cleanup, compaction

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.5
• Assignee: Jonathan Ellis
• Reporter: Jonathan Ellis

Authors

Jonathan Ellis

• Created: 10/Dec/09 05:32
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:33
• Resolved: 16/Dec/09 17:39

Description

"my disk space never goes down until i restart" seems to be common for people testing things out who give their JVMs too much memory

let's help them out by calling system.gc on cleanup and compaction (which are rare enough that performance hit should be negligible)