Hi everyone, I am facing an issue and needs help A...
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John
09/27/2025, 8:35 AMHi everyone, I am facing an issue and needs help ASAP, previously I drop and re-import data to my collection, but in the middle of import process I got OUT_OF_DISK error even though I have nothing inside my cluster right now, maybe someone can help?
John
09/27/2025, 8:37 AMI use JSONL curl upload for this
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Kishore Nallan
09/27/2025, 8:38 AMRun a compaction on the data directory (this must be run on each node in the cluster individually):
https://typesense.org/docs/29.0/api/cluster-operations.html#compacting-the-on-disk-database
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John
09/27/2025, 8:39 AMThanks, will try it out!
John
09/27/2025, 8:52 AMI got error code 5 when performing compaction, what is that?
John
09/27/2025, 8:58 AMI got these error when trying the compaction @Kishore Nallan
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Kishore Nallan
09/27/2025, 9:01 AMIf you are already run out of disk space, you have to maybe add more disk and make some space before it can work.
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John
09/27/2025, 9:02 AMright now I don't even have any data inside my cluster
John
09/27/2025, 9:02 AMsince I have drop them yesterday to do re-import
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Kishore Nallan
09/27/2025, 9:13 AMDid you check what's taking up space then? Your disk metrics show that there is enough space?
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John
09/27/2025, 9:13 AMhow to check that? I am using cloud right now
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Kishore Nallan
09/27/2025, 9:17 AMTypesense Cloud?
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John
09/27/2025, 9:17 AMYes
John
09/27/2025, 9:27 AMI can get the metrics with API but I don't know what makes it full
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Kishore Nallan
09/27/2025, 9:29 AMPlease DM me your cluster ID
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John
09/27/2025, 9:30 AMokay. sent
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Kishore Nallan
09/27/2025, 9:36 AMThe disk usage has now dropped.
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John
09/27/2025, 10:10 AMthanks! seems working now
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Kishore Nallan
09/27/2025, 12:05 PMCool, you have to run this periodically if you are doing a lot of repeated writes.