Re: removing old nodes

2013-03-21 Thread Jim Cistaro
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Re: removing old nodes

2013-03-21 Thread Ben Chobot
Ah, well I'll check back in a week then. But for the record, what I meant was that nodetool gossipinfo now has entries like: /10.1.20.201 STATUS:LEFT,50,1364152145790 Where is shows "50" is where the token used to be, and where it still is on all my live nodes. So it appears to me as if all m

Re: removing old nodes

2013-03-21 Thread Alain RODRIGUEZ
"(And now all sharing token 50? I dunno where that came from.)" Not sure about what you mean. "nodetool gossipinfo still shows all the old nodes there" They must appear with a "left" or "remove" status. Off the top of my head, this information will remains 7 days. Not sure about it. 2013/3/2

Re: removing old nodes

2013-03-21 Thread Ben Chobot
Thanks Alain, this seems to have stopped the log messages, even though nodetool gossipinfo still shows all the old nodes there. (And now all sharing token 50? I dunno where that came from.) Will they eventually fall away from the cluster, or are they there for good? On Mar 21, 2013, at 11:53 AM

Re: removing old nodes

2013-03-21 Thread Alain RODRIGUEZ
Using the unsafeAssassinateEndpoint function with old IPs from JMX should do the trick. This was already discussed in this mailing list, search using "unsafeAssassinateEndpoint" as keyword to know all that you need to know about it. Hope you'll be ok after that. Alain 2013/3/21 Ben Chobot >

removing old nodes

2013-03-21 Thread Ben Chobot
I've got a 1.1.5 cluster, and a few weeks ago I removed some nodes from it. (I was trying to upgrade nodes from AWS' large to xlarge, and for some reason that made sense at the time, it seemed better to double my nodes and then decommission the smaller ones, rather than to simply rebuild the exi