Re: Routine nodetool repair

2011-12-23 Thread aaron morton
Next time I will finish my morning coffee first :) A - Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 23/12/2011, at 5:08 AM, Peter Schuller wrote: >> One other thing to consider is are you creating a few very large rows ? You >> can check the min,

Re: Routine nodetool repair

2011-12-22 Thread Peter Schuller
> One other thing to consider is are you creating a few very large rows ? You > can check the min, max and average row size using nodetool cfstats. Normall I agree, but assuming the two-node cluster has RF 2 it would actually not matter ;) -- / Peter Schuller (@scode, http://worldmodscode.wordpr

Re: Routine nodetool repair

2011-12-22 Thread aaron morton
The ring is balanced and the difference is pretty small. One other thing to consider is are you creating a few very large rows ? You can check the min, max and average row size using nodetool cfstats. If all is fine don't worry about it. If you want to see the numbers get closer nodetool comp

Re: Routine nodetool repair

2011-12-21 Thread Peter Schuller
> Could the lack of routine repair be why nodetool ring reports: node(1) Load > -> 78.24 MB and node(2) Load -> 67.21 MB? The load span between the two > nodes has been increasing ever so slowly... No. Generally there will be a variation in load depending on what state compaction happens to be in

Re: Routine nodetool repair

2011-12-21 Thread Blake Starkenburg
Output from nodetool ring: Address DC RackStatus State Load OwnsToken 85070591730234615865843651857942052864 110.82.155.2 datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 78.23 MB 50.00% 0 110.82.155.4 datacenter1 rack1 Up Normal 67.21 MB 50.00% 8507059173023

Re: Routine nodetool repair

2011-12-21 Thread aaron morton
Post the output from nodetool ring and take a look at http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations#Token_selection Cheers - Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 22/12/2011, at 5:21 AM, Blake Starkenburg wrote: > Thank You! > > Could the

Re: Routine nodetool repair

2011-12-21 Thread Blake Starkenburg
Thank You! Could the lack of routine repair be why nodetool ring reports: node(1) Load -> 78.24 MB and node(2) Load -> 67.21 MB? The load span between the two nodes has been increasing ever so slowly... On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:00 AM, aaron morton wrote: > Here you go > http://wiki.apache.org/c

Re: Routine nodetool repair

2011-12-21 Thread aaron morton
Here you go http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations#Dealing_with_the_consequences_of_nodetool_repair_not_running_within_GCGraceSeconds Cheers - Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 21/12/2011, at 2:44 PM, Blake Starkenburg wrote: > I

Routine nodetool repair

2011-12-20 Thread Blake Starkenburg
I have been playing around with Cassandra for a few months now. Starting to explore more of the routine maintenance and backup strategies and I have a general question about nodetool repair. After reading the following page: http://www.datastax.com/docs/0.8/operations/cluster_management it has occu