Re: strange load balancing across three nodes

2010-06-05 Thread Mike Subelsky
Ahh, I think this is the key section I missed: "you can still have imbalances if your Tokens do not divide up the range evenly, so you should specify InitialToken to your first nodes as i * (2**127 / N) for i = 1 .. N." I'm going to reset my cluster with initial tokens like that. Thanks! -Mike

Re: strange load balancing across three nodes

2010-06-04 Thread Jonathan Ellis
The sections on ring management and token selection on http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations will help. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Mike Subelsky wrote: > Hello everyone, > > One of my nodes has a much higher load (10x) than the other two nodes. >  I don't think it's because a few keys

strange load balancing across three nodes

2010-06-04 Thread Mike Subelsky
Hello everyone, One of my nodes has a much higher load (10x) than the other two nodes. I don't think it's because a few keys have a lot more columns than others -- the keys are well distributed and I'm using the random partitioner. Could someone point me in the direction of what should I be chec