Hey friends, I'm looking for some feedback on whether what's been proposed in CASSANDRA-17808 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-17808> is reasonable. To summarize...
1.) We continue to transfer hints by default during decommission, but at a higher rate. We could, for instance, stop having DispatchHintsTask divide its effective rate by the number of nodes in the cluster. int nodesCount = Math.max(1, StorageService.instance.getTokenMetadata().getAllEndpoints().size() - 1); double throttleInBytes = DatabaseDescriptor.getHintedHandoffThrottleInKiB() * 1024.0 / nodesCount; this.rateLimiter = RateLimiter.create(throttleInBytes == 0 ? Double.MAX_VALUE : throttleInBytes); 2.) We provide an option to simply avoid transferring hints during unbootstrap. Even this would only take the BatchLog from "best effort" to "slightly less effort"
