Manage compaction using nodetool commands

Use these nodetool commands for compaction.

nodetool compact

Forces a major compaction on one or more tables or given SSTables.

nodetool compactionhistory

Prints history of compaction.

nodetool compactionstats

Prints statistics about compactions.

nodetool disableautocompaction

Disables autocompaction for a keyspace and one or more tables.

nodetool enableautocompaction

Enables autocompaction for a keyspace and one or more tables, or all tables.

nodetool garbagecollect

Removes deleted data from one or more tables.

nodetool getcompactionthreshold

Prints minimum and maximum compaction thresholds for a given table.

nodetool getcompactionthroughput

Prints the compaction throughput in megabytes (MBs) per second.

nodetool getconcurrentcompactors

Gets the number of concurrent compactors in the system.

snodetool setcompactionthreshold

Sets minimum and maximum compaction thresholds for a table.

nodetool setcompactionthroughput

Sets the throughput capacity for compaction in the system, or disables throttling.

nodetool setconcurrentcompactors

Sets number of concurrent compactors.

nodetool stop

Stops compaction.

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