decommission and hints

2013-01-04 Thread Jason Brown
Hi all, Looks like decommissioning a node (nodetool decommission) will stream all the non-system table data out to it's appropriate peers (StorageService.unbootstrap()), but what should happen to hints? From reading StorageService, it seems like nothing in particular forces them to get replayed (w

Re: what is fat client and FatClientTimeout?

2013-01-04 Thread Jason Wee
> I don't know what a Fat Client is. Got from google.. http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/trunk/examples/client_only/README.txt http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/improved-hadoop-output > And why are they removed automatically from gossip after FatClientTimeout which is half QUARANTINE_TIME?