It shouldn't remove a node from the ring should it? (appears it did) It shouldn't remove data from db, should it? (data size appears to grow, but records are now missing)
Loaded 38 million "rows" and the ring looked like this: m...@ec2:~/cassandra/apache-cassandra-0.6.0-rc1$ bin/nodetool --host 192.168.1.116 ring Address Status Load Range Ring 167730615856220406399741259265091647472 192.168.1.116 Up 4.81 GB 54880762918591020775962843965839761529 |<--| 192.168.1.119 Up 12.96 GB 160455137948102479104219052453775170160 | | 192.168.1.12 Up 8.98 GB 167730615856220406399741259265091647472 |-- So I did this: m...@record:~/cassandra/apache-cassandra-0.6.0-rc1$ bin/nodetool --host 192.168.1.12 loadbalance And this happened (even though Cassandra was still running): m...@record:~/cassandra/apache-cassandra-0.6.0-rc1$ bin/nodetool --host 192.168.1.12 ring Address Status Load Range Ring 160455137948102479104219052453775170160 192.168.1.116 Up 12.71 GB 54880762918591020775962843965839761529 |<--| 192.168.1.119 Up 13.47 GB 160455137948102479104219052453775170160 |-->| After restarting Cassandra on .12 m...@record:~/cassandra/apache-cassandra-0.6.0-rc1$ bin/nodetool --host 192.168.1.12 ring Address Status Load Range Ring 160455137948102479104219052453775170160 192.168.1.116 Up 12.71 GB 54880762918591020775962843965839761529 |<--| 192.168.1.12 Up 8.98 GB 107669873051407416105654071439122680093 | | 192.168.1.119 Up 13.47 GB 160455137948102479104219052453775170160 |-->| Now I have more data, but nearly 50% of my queries are failing (not found). This data was checked before the load balance was done.