Re: hints system CF getting out of control

2011-08-18 Thread Jeremy Hanna
So if you kill a joining node, it will remain as a Fat Client (as of 0.7.x) in gossip. That is innocuous on its own. However if a node was decommissioned while that was joining, then the lingering Fat Client will also gossip about the node that was decommissioned. Then it will try to hint for

Re: hints system CF getting out of control

2011-08-18 Thread Jonathan Ellis
I would assume it's because it thinks some node is down and is creating hints for it. On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Jeremy Hanna wrote: > We're trying to bootstrap some new nodes and it appears when adding a new > node that there is a lot of logging on hints being flushed and compacted.   > I

hints system CF getting out of control

2011-08-18 Thread Jeremy Hanna
We're trying to bootstrap some new nodes and it appears when adding a new node that there is a lot of logging on hints being flushed and compacted. It's been taking about 75 minutes thus far to bootstrap for only about 10 GB of data. It's ballooned up to over 40 GB on the new node. I do 'ls -