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Brandon Williams commented on CASSANDRA-6127:
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It would be helpful to dump the interval times for a node that is flapping
(dumpInterArrivalTimes on the FD) so we can see how long the heartbeats are
taking. If some are excessively long, we need to get threads dumps/debugger
timings from the gossiper to see if something is blocking it or taking a long
time before changing any fundamentals (gossip interval, FD formula) that we
already know work in principle without vnodes. Increasing the payload size to
>32k shouldn't cause these problems, since that is only sent during initial
state synchronization and isn't all that large to begin with.
> vnodes don't scale to hundreds of nodes
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> Key: CASSANDRA-6127
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6127
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Core
> Environment: Any cluster that has vnodes and consists of hundreds of
> physical nodes.
> Reporter: Tupshin Harper
> Assignee: Jonathan Ellis
> Attachments: 6000vnodes.patch, AdjustableGossipPeriod.patch,
> delayEstimatorUntilStatisticallyValid.patch
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> There are a lot of gossip-related issues related to very wide clusters that
> also have vnodes enabled. Let's use this ticket as a master in case there are
> sub-tickets.
> The most obvious symptom I've seen is with 1000 nodes in EC2 with m1.xlarge
> instances. Each node configured with 32 vnodes.
> Without vnodes, cluster spins up fine and is ready to handle requests within
> 30 minutes or less.
> With vnodes, nodes are reporting constant up/down flapping messages with no
> external load on the cluster. After a couple of hours, they were still
> flapping, had very high cpu load, and the cluster never looked like it was
> going to stabilize or be useful for traffic.
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