Re: Having trouble getting cassandra to stay up

2010-12-27 Thread Alex Quan
I started over and used a m1 type instance and everything seems to be working fine now, thanks for all the help Alex On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Gary Dusbabek wrote: > You might want to try starting over. Configure your initial keyspaces > in conf/cassandra.yaml and load them into your cl

Re: Having trouble getting cassandra to stay up

2010-12-27 Thread Gary Dusbabek
You might want to try starting over. Configure your initial keyspaces in conf/cassandra.yaml and load them into your cluster with bin/schematool. That nasty stack trace indicates the server is getting data that is not formatted the way it expects. Please verify that your cassandra servers are bo

Re: Having trouble getting cassandra to stay up

2010-12-24 Thread Stu Hood
up and running from scratch. > > > > Dan > > > > *From:* Alex Quan [mailto:alex.q...@tinkur.com] > *Sent:* December-24-10 17:44 > *To:* user@cassandra.apache.org > *Subject:* Re: Having trouble getting cassandra to stay up > > > > I am running the bin

RE: Having trouble getting cassandra to stay up

2010-12-24 Thread Dan Hendry
o:alex.q...@tinkur.com] Sent: December-24-10 17:44 To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: Having trouble getting cassandra to stay up I am running the bin/cassandra with the -f option and it does seem to fully die and not just stalling. I have also tried using the cassandra-cli to create

Re: Having trouble getting cassandra to stay up

2010-12-24 Thread Alex Quan
I am running the bin/cassandra with the -f option and it does seem to fully die and not just stalling. I have also tried using the cassandra-cli to create keyspace and it works for a little bit and then will die slightly after accepting the request the vmstat after it dies is as follows: procs -

Re: Having trouble getting cassandra to stay up

2010-12-24 Thread Dan Hendry
Hum, very strange. More what I was trying to get at was: did the process truly die or was it just non-responsive and looking like it was dead? It would be very strange if the actual process was dying without any warnings in the logs. Presumably you are running bin/cassandra *without* the -f option

Re: Having trouble getting cassandra to stay up

2010-12-24 Thread Alex Quan
Sorry but I am not sure how to answer all the question that you have posed since a lot of the stuff I am working with is quite new to me and I haven't use many of the tools that are talked about but I will try my best to answer the question to the best of my knowledge. I am trying to get the cassan

Re: Having trouble getting cassandra to stay up

2010-12-23 Thread Dan Hendry
Your details are rather vague, what do you mean by killed? Is the Cassandra java process still running? Any other warning or error log messages (from either node)? Could you provide the last few Cassandra log lines from each machine? Can you connect to the node via JMX? What is the output of nodeto