Re: odd production issue today 1.1.4

2013-02-17 Thread aaron morton
There is always this old chestnut http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/FAQ#ubuntu_hangs A - Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer New Zealand @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 16/02/2013, at 8:22 AM, Edward Capriolo wrote: > With hyper threading a core can show up

Re: odd production issue today 1.1.4

2013-02-15 Thread Edward Capriolo
With hyper threading a core can show up as two or maybe even four physical system processors, this is something the kernel does. On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Hiller, Dean wrote: > We ran into an issue today where website became around 10 times slower. We > found out node 5 out of our 6 nod

odd production issue today 1.1.4

2013-02-15 Thread Hiller, Dean
We ran into an issue today where website became around 10 times slower. We found out node 5 out of our 6 nodes was hitting 2100% cpu (cat /proc/cpuinfo reveals a 16 processor machine). I am really not sure how to hit 2100% unless we had 21 processors. It bounces between 300% and 2100% so I tr