Re: Move to smaller nodes

2014-02-05 Thread Keith Wright
Thank you Rob this is very helpful. I'll keep you posted on any progress. Are others running some what large nodes on CentOS 6.4 or similar? Using java 7? We are also hosted through SoftLayer? Any help is much appreciated. In general I think Cassandra meets our needs but this is a blocker fo

Re: Move to smaller nodes

2014-02-05 Thread Robert Coli
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Keith Wright wrote: > Also there is one more option which is we could upgrade to 2.0 in the > hopes that our issue is fixed as part of the streaming overhaul. But > seeing as this is a production cluster and 2.0 does not yet appear > production ready, that makes

Re: Move to smaller nodes

2014-02-05 Thread Robert Coli
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Keith Wright wrote: > Hi Rob, thanks for the response! Interestingly if we run a repair we > don't see the bootstrap issue so I am considering doing the empty node > repair methodology. > Weird. Bootstrap should not be more fragile than repair. > >- Update

Re: Move to smaller nodes

2014-02-05 Thread Keith Wright
ra.apache.org>> Cc: Don Jackson mailto:djack...@nanigans.com>>, Dave Carroll mailto:dcarr...@nanigans.com>> Subject: Re: Move to smaller nodes Hi Rob, thanks for the response! Interestingly if we run a repair we don’t see the bootstrap issue so I am considering doing the empty node repair m

Re: Move to smaller nodes

2014-02-05 Thread Keith Wright
5, 2014 at 2:10 PM To: "user@cassandra.apache.org<mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>" mailto:user@cassandra.apache.org>> Cc: Don Jackson mailto:djack...@nanigans.com>>, Dave Carroll mailto:dcarr...@nanigans.com>> Subject: Re: Move to smaller nodes http://www.palominodb.com/blog/2012/09/25/bulk-loading-options-cassandra

Re: Move to smaller nodes

2014-02-05 Thread Robert Coli
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Keith Wright wrote: > Earlier today I emailed about issues we're having bootstrapping nodes > into our existing cluster. One theory we have is that our nodes are simply > too large and are considering moving to more, smaller nodes. However, > because we cann

Move to smaller nodes

2014-02-05 Thread Keith Wright
Hi all, Earlier today I emailed about issues we’re having bootstrapping nodes into our existing cluster. One theory we have is that our nodes are simply too large and are considering moving to more, smaller nodes. However, because we cannot bootstrap it makes it difficult. As I see it, w