I am trying to delete some old graphite test whisper metrics without any success. I can delete the metrics by removing the files. (See: How to cleanup the graphite whisper's data? ) But, within a few seconds of blowing away the files they regenerate (they are empty of metrics and stay that way since nothing is creating new metrics in those files). I've tried stopping carbon (carbon-cache.py stop) before deleting the files, but when I restart carbon (carbon-cache.py --debug start &) they just come back.
How do I permanently delete these files/metics so they never come back?
Are you running statsd or something similar?
I had the same issue and it was because statsd was flushing the counters it had in memory after I deleted the whisper files. I recycled statsd and the files stay deleted now.
Hope this helps