My cluster is very small (300 MB) and compact was taking more than 2 hours.
I ended up bouncing all the nodes. After that, I was able to run repair
on all nodes, and each one takes less than a minute.
If this happens again I will be sure to run compactionstats and netstats.
Thanks for that tip.
How much data do you have and how long is "a while"? In my experience repairs
can take a very long time. Check to see if validation compactions are running
(nodetool compactionstats) or if files are streaming (nodetool netstats). If
either of those are in progress then your repair should be r
I am running 1.0.8. I am adding a new data center to an existing cluster.
Following steps outlined in another thread on the mailing list, things went
fine except for the last step, which is to run repair on all the nodes in
the new data center. Repair seems to be hanging indefinitely. There is n
